In my opinion and experience many ThinkPads from the era of the T60 have defective batteries. I have a T60 that was 13 months old when it went from a 'like new' battery to a totally failed and non-functional battery instantly one day. It wouldn't charge and it wasn't recognized beyond the message "your battery has failed". In researching things I found Lenovo had two battery recall programs for T and X series systems from the same general model range as mine but my battery's FRU was not included on either recall. I also found that the battery failure scenario (total immediate failure, not gradual degradation) was commonplace on these systems. To me, it is obvious that there was a bad batch of batteries. Lenovo seemed to be trying to do the right thing by having recalls but they fell short of my expectations by refusing to acknowledge that their recall should apply to more FRUs. The symptoms were identical. The models were from the same production range.
You can read more about things here: http://forums.lenovo.com/lnv/board/message?board.id=T_Series_Thinkpads&thread.id=4781 The one bright spot is that there are some good battery deals on the Lenovo outlet web site. I picked up a replacement 9-cell battery for the T60 for under $40. This sale has been noted on the TP list several times, even as recently as the last week or two. Rob On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:27 +0800, "Erwin Amoranto" <[email protected]> wrote: > > The battery on my T60 just died. It only had 12 cycles on it. Was using > it for a day, gave me around 2 hours then when I charged it, it charged > all > the way to 100% then after a few days of being plugged in, the battery > indicator just started to flash orange continuously. Now I have a dead > battery and yet the indicators says 100% but when i unplugged it, machine > shuts down. Is there anyway to fix this? > > Also, I have a X40 that vertical lines comeout twice and in both cases > disappeared. I'm just wondering, in case it worsen, can i swap the lcd > of > my dead x31 to my X40? > > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
