[ltp] 770X Batteries

Dennis Lee linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:06:17 -0600


John D'Ausilio wrote:
> 
> Did it really 'fry' itself, or does it just appear to not hold a charge? I
> take care of 6 770Z's for my company, and we've discovered that the battery
> loses it's 'brain' occasionally. There's a procedure on the IBM website, but
> in a nutshell what we do is discharge until the laptop suspends, turn it on
> again and let it discharge to suspend, turn it on a third time and let it
> discharge to suspend, then let it charge overnight with the machine off.
> Once I had to do the whole sequence twice to get it to wake up.
> 

Are you doing a charge session between turn on's or just enough power
from the charger to power it up then pulling the plug and letting go
quickly back to suspend? If my laptop goes to suspend it will not
restart until I feed it some AC.

Dennis


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Hawtin [mailto:oolon@ankh.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 9:52 AM
> > To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
> > Subject: [ltp] 770X Batteries
> >
> >
> > So anyone know where I buy a new one cheaply or bring my current one back
> > to life? After 1.5 years of owning this laptop the battery has fried
> > itself. Not very impressive if you ask me.
> >
> > James
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