[ltp] Has my battery failed?

[Michael W. Holdeman]

Bought mine on e-bay, new for $85.

Mike

(or try www.batteryzone.com) I have one of theirs for my TP600 as well an=
d it=20
does as well as the IBM batt.=20

On Tuesday 26 November 2002 02:28 pm, Tony Willoughby wrote:
> 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 run=
ning
> > 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 "shutdo=
wn"
> > > and then pull the power cord to to pack it up.  The system continue=
s to
> > > shutdown on battery power.
> > >
> > > One day last week I did this and the system powered off immediately=
=2E
> > > 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 batter=
y.
> > > 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?
> >
> > --
> > =09Michael W. Holdeman
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