[ltp] Has my battery failed?

[Tony Willoughby]

I'm really surprised that it would fail so suddenly.

What should I expect to pay for a replacement?



On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 13:58, Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> My 600 did exactly the same thing. A new battery and it is up and running good 
> 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, 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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