Get the appropriate Thinkvantage Power Manager from the Lenovo website. It can give you some info on your battery condition, and contains a tool for conditioning the battery.
While you're at it, make sure you have the latest version of the BIOS and other drivers. David -------------------------------------------------- From: "Andrea Levin" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 7:03 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: [Thinkpad] X60 running xp - power setting and battery issues My workhorse computer for the past two years has been a used X60 running XP - it came to me with fairly light use, and a (4 cell?) battery that held a charge well (about 2.3 hours). I have 3 other TPs, but this is the one I cart around. Power settings are under XP, not ThinkVantage. Problem one: it doesn't hold my power / critical alarm settings. So on about a dozen occasions, the battery has plunged to 4% in a rapid lurch from around 34%. This is question one - what would be the cause, and the fix? This is more for future reference, because the battery seems shot, as you'd expect. (I wonder too whether there could be some program / something running in the background that periodically eats huge amounts of juice...?) Problem two: The shot battery - I realize I might just have to say RIP. Yesterday, it discharged completely. (It had 10 minutes of juice after registering 0%) I was curious to see whether it was just the meter that was off kilter, and let it drain. Pushed the power button for good measure, and recharged. Today the meter shows 100% = 2 hours; but it plunges from 94% to 4%, triggering alarm. So question two: how to calibrate this battery? Can't find a utility in XP. I recall doing this in a TP with a utility in TV - and may swap the battery into that machine to check. I went into BIOS and was unable to find a utility. Thanks! Andrea Levin _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
