Fwd: [ltp] battery trouble

[Hendrik-Jan Heins]

I've contacted Lenovo support. They told me that that means my battery is dead.
No waranty or anything (The machine is exactly one year and one month old).

Not really happy with this :-(

Isn't there any way to fix this or to bypass the circuit?

Hendrik-Jan


2008/8/1 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>:
> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008, Hendrik-Jan Heins wrote:
>> Unfortunatly, when I use your method, replug the battery and replug
>> the ac connector it takes a couple of seconds more for the battery
>> light to change from an orangy-green at plugging the ac connector to
>> switching to blinking orange again.
>
> That's enough to know that whatever is wrong, is wrong with the battery
> itself and it was not the thinkpad going weird on you :-)
>
>> Can the Windows suite do more than the pc doctor iso image? I'm asking
>> as I currently have no windows installed on this machine...
>
> I am not sure.  The windows suite asks the SBS controller inside the battery
> pack about its status, but there is a damn good hint that the controller is
> signaling a battery fault to the EC, as it is doing the blink-orange dance.
>
>> The battery is an original. It came with the machine when I bought it.
>
> Then you should phone Lenovo right away, and tell them what you know of the
> problem.  If it is something that a simple procedure like draining the
> battery will solve, they will tell you about that.  OTOH, if draining the
> battery is the ONE thing you shouldn't do, they will tell you that as well
> :-)
>
> If the pc doctor iso image can read battery data, it is good to have it on
> hand to talk to Lenovo.  In particular, if that serial number is wrong, it
> means something went wrong with the pack's non-volatile memory.
>
> --
>  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
>  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
>  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
>  Henrique Holschuh
>