[ltp] Has my battery failed?

[Michael W. Holdeman]

My 600 did exactly the same thing. A new battery and it is up and running=
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as new.

Mike


On Tuesday 26 November 2002 09:08 am, 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, Linu=
x
> 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 lik=
e
> this.  Has my battery failed or is something else wrong?

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