[ltp] 770X Batteries

[John D'Ausilio]

no charge session .. as James described, just pop the battery in and out ...
the idea is to make sure the thing's *really* dead

john d

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Lee [mailto:dennisle@swbell.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 2:06 PM
> To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
> Subject: Re: [ltp] 770X Batteries
>
>
> 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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