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Revision as of 22:09, 9 March 2005
Information about the problem of early dying batteries on Thinkpads of the 600 series.
Problem description
The charge indicator falls from some still quite high (between 50% and 95%) charge state to 5%. This happens only on batteries which have gone through some recharging cycles already.
Affected Models
- Thinkpad 600, 600E, 600X
Affected Operating Systems
- all
Status
- Raph Levien has collected comprehensive information about this phenomena and possible solutions in 2002 on this page: http://www.levien.com/tp600-battery.html
- Another possible solution is to buy an external battery pack.
Solutions
See this page: http://www.levien.com/tp600-battery.html
It has been the experience of some users, including myself, that the batteries perform far better if you _never_ charge the battery while the computer is on. The area around the battery gets quite hot while using the laptop. Charging the battery at that temperature seems to be a bad idea.
