Strange battery behavior

i haven't used my nano in 2 months. i am going on a trip and i wanna bring the nano... so i plug it in.
i get a large battery icon in the middle of the screen. it is an empty battery with a lightning bolt on the left side.
like the one at the bottom of this page...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60970
i got the nano for christmas of this past year... 2005. the battery can't be out of re-charges already.
Windows recognizes the nano... is shows up in 'my computer'... but itunes does not see it. it has been connected for 2 hours now... and the screen shows a do not disconnect icon.. and then up in the right corner there is a small battery icon that keeps going from empty to full over and over. there is also a small 'refresh' icon in the upper left corner... an up arrow and down arrow spinning around to make a circle.
can someone tell me what is going on?
thanks
jer
nano 4gig Windows XP Pro

Run it until it goes totally dead in which case the machine turns off. This does not mean to go into sleep or hibernate. Thats not dead!!
You either have to configure power manger to not do anything in case of weak battery or boot into something else where there is no power management EG CD tool or something.
The fully charge it and see what its says for its level. Once charged you can go into the TVT Powermanager and look at the state of the battery and also confirm/test it further.
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Nokia N8 and strange battery low notifications

I have strange experience with my Nokia N8 notifications about low battery. Other Nokia phones sending lots of "beep's" when battery level is low - my N8 sends only one (maybe 2, but this last one is before phone turning off). First one with asking, that i will turn on power safe mode and 2nd (whatever i choose power saveing mode or not) is the last one "Battey empty. Please charge" (or something similar.
I think this is very strange and **bleep** off behavior. Any1 had like me? Is any fix for this issue?
Thanks from advance for usefull tips and sorry, because my English is very weak.

I agreed with that, but what if i don't know, that my phone have battery low, because i left it on table or other place in house and i don't hear first warning? Phone will discharge battery for good and turn off itself. I have few situations, when i don't hear this first (and only) warning and i was suprised at the morning, when i saw my phone is turned off or in the middle of the day, when someone tells me, that he can't call in to me (because phone died). Other situation when i must use my phone when i have 10% of battery power, after switching to power safe mode (like quick check when i have bus on Internet, quick call to somebody or what is WORSE: when i write long text in QuickOffice and phone shows me middle finger...
Other Nokia's having LiON batteries too and they have normal notifications. Some thing is really messed up here and it must be fixed. I feel like HTC HD2 user (i was HD2 user), because this phone do exactly the same "trick"...

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