[ltp] Running without a battery?

[André Wyrwa]

Hi,

> Just for reference, there was quite a bit of coverage about battery
> problems on ThinkPad600s (which are not that modern, of course), which
> are supposed to stop charging at 95%, too, but don't so.  Here are two
> links that summarize the problem and have pointers to further
> discussion:
> 
>   http://www.levien.com/tp600-battery.html
>   http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/tp600lnx.htm#secbat
> 
> >From what I gathered, this is a rather specific tp600 problem, though.

The main problem of the 600 batteries is not that it continues charging
when over 90% (this seems to be fixed by bios update), but that the
internal controller of these so called intelligent batteries is faulty.
The problem occurs as sudden capacity drops from around 85% to 5%.

Andre.