1 Feb 2010 10:33
Re: Can't charge replacement battery on X61
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Yannick Gingras wrote: > I have an X61 and I recently ordered a replacement battery from ebay. > It's a 8-cell SANYO with a rated capacity of 74950 mWh. The problem > is that it won't charge. The first time I tried it, it would sate Well, I'd say that either the battery is bad (which is likely), or your thinkpad is broken, or you have some sort of bad connection between the battery and the thinkpad. You'd need to take it to the repair shop to know for sure (or test it with another battery, etc). > Is there a way to force the charger to kick in? You seem to have found one. Still, any battery that acts funny should be replaced, these things are fire hazards. Buy batteries on reputable places, *only*. -- -- "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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away.(Continue reading)
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booting linux, the display stays dark when I open the switch afterwards.
That is, I boot into grub with the switch open, then press it down,
and let grub load linux. Now, I don't have a clue how long exactly I
have to wait before releasing the switch, but if I hold it down
until the basic hardware initialization (whatever that is, exactly 
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