Fwd: [ltp] battery trouble

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 01 Aug 2008, Hendrik-Jan Heins wrote:
> Unfortunatly, when I use your method, replug the battery and replug
> the ac connector it takes a couple of seconds more for the battery
> light to change from an orangy-green at plugging the ac connector to
> switching to blinking orange again.

That's enough to know that whatever is wrong, is wrong with the battery
itself and it was not the thinkpad going weird on you :-)

> Can the Windows suite do more than the pc doctor iso image? I'm asking
> as I currently have no windows installed on this machine...

I am not sure.  The windows suite asks the SBS controller inside the battery
pack about its status, but there is a damn good hint that the controller is
signaling a battery fault to the EC, as it is doing the blink-orange dance.

> The battery is an original. It came with the machine when I bought it.

Then you should phone Lenovo right away, and tell them what you know of the
problem.  If it is something that a simple procedure like draining the
battery will solve, they will tell you about that.  OTOH, if draining the
battery is the ONE thing you shouldn't do, they will tell you that as well
:-)

If the pc doctor iso image can read battery data, it is good to have it on
hand to talk to Lenovo.  In particular, if that serial number is wrong, it
means something went wrong with the pack's non-volatile memory.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh