[ltp] 770X Batteries

[James Hawtin]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, 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.
> 
> john d
> 

I said fried cos it suddenfly changed from holding charge perfectly to
jumping from 5% to 100% full and from 97%->0% empty. Interestingly, the
the % indication tells me that the bar indicator still read one bar and
the LED still flashes....

James

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