[ltp] Battery memory issue

[John Jason Jordan]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:52:28 +0000
Ted Frater <ted.frater@virgin.net> dijo:

> An excellent descriptive outline, but Id need a few more facts
> You say your thinkpad is only a month old.
> I presume its a month from new,
> also the 6 cell battery is a genuine IBM.
> Now, is the 9 cell also a genuine IBM?
> or an aftermarket one?,

The original 6-cell battery is the one that came with the computer. The
9-cell was purchased on eBay and came from China. However, it says
"Lenovo" on it with the standard Lenovo logo. Lenovo is, after all, in
China. None of that proves anything, unfortunately.

> we have here an A21P, yes an old laptop but still a super one.
> It had an IBM battery init that came to the end of its life.
> this Thinkpad had the latest Bios on it.
> I have a supplyof aftermarket batteries that are fine .
> We put it into the Thinkpad and it wouldnt show it was being charged. 
> Running Ubuntu Gutsy.
> Now I have the same thinkpad with thesame battery running Slackware 10 
> BUT with its original bios. from 2000.
> We put the new baterry in my Thinkpad and it worked fine and showed 
> proper charging data.
> So in our case the latest bios had some code to deliberately obscure the 
> aftermarket battery functions.
> Wedowngraded the bios to the 1st version and it then worked fine

I do have a new BIOS. I had to update the BIOS in order to get the
4965AGN wireless working. So if the problem with the battery is the new
BIOS, I am stuck, as I cannot go back to the old BIOS.

I know IBM is still working on the BIOS for this computer, as there are
still problems with the wireless. Perhaps my battery problem will be
resolved with a new BIOS later.