[ltp] Has my battery failed?

[Paul Timmins]

Try charging the battery of the 390E in a different thinkpad that it
fits in (often the batteries fit several models) and see if it works
then. It's possible the charging circuits have gone bad.
Otherwise, mine did die in a somewhat similar fashion in my 560.
-Paul

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 09:08, Tony Willoughby wrote:
> 
> My 390E has stopped detecting/using the battery.  
> 
> My typical practice when leaving work for the day is to run "shutdown"
> and then pull the power cord to to pack it up.  The system continues to
> shutdown on battery power.
> 
> One day last week I did this and the system powered off immediately. 
> Since then it will not power up unless connected to the AC.  "apm"
> reports: "AC on-line", it used to report the % charge of the battery. 
> Reseating the battery hasn't helped.  
> 
> apm reports the following when started..
> 
> Nov 26 09:06:39 localhost apmd: apmd startup succeeded
> Nov 26 09:06:39 localhost apmd[1845]: Version 3.0.2 (APM BIOS 1.2, Linux
> driver 1.16)
> Nov 26 09:06:40 localhost apmd[1845]: Charge: * * * (-1% unknown)
> 
> I always assumed that battery failures would be gradual, not sudden like
> this.  Has my battery failed or is something else wrong?
> 
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> Tony Willoughby     tonyw@pobox.com
> 
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