Re: [Thinkpad] Battery problems

570 batterys are almost always bad, even when "new". They don't seem to have
much shelf life.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew" <Raere@web.de>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 3:02 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] Battery problems

> Hi guys,
>
> I've had my 570E for a few months, and the battery never lasted for
> more than a few minutes. So, when I went to California, I bought a new
> battery. However, it didn't last much longer, which led me to thinking
> that it really wasn't that new. But,I tried this. After about 5 minutes,
> it would hibernate. As soon as that happened, I would turn it on, and
> the orange LED would start flashing after a few seconds. If I go into
> the BIOS and change anything, then save and exit, it'll boot for me. If
> I don't go into the BIOS, or for some reason on random ocassions it'll
> just give me a "190 Critical battery error". When I get it to boot, it
> runs movies for another good hour or so. Obviously, the battery can
> physically run longer, but the laptop doesn't recognize that. The whole
> time it's on after it hibernates, the orange light is flashing, and in
> Windows, the battery icon says it's at 0%. Is there any way that I can
> fix this? I was thinking that maybe flashing the CMOS would fix it, but
> I'm not sure how to do it. I already reset the BIOS to factory settings,
> and cleared the extended memory thing. I'd really like to not have to
> reformat, as I just did about a month ago. Thanks,
>
> Raere
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Received on Thu Aug 26 15:41:45 2004