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    My T510's battery is wrong?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by MDDZ, Nov 30, 2010.

  1. MDDZ

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    I got a new T510. It came with 64-biy Win 7 professional and 6 cell battery.

    I notice one situation about the battery. When the battery reaches 5% left (for example), I start to charge it by using the 90W adapter. After being charged for quite a while, the battery indicator capacity indicator in the taskbar still shows 5%. I know it is not right. If I restart the machine, then it shows 80%, 90%, or something. It may show the right number sometimes without me restarting the machine. This happened a few times.

    What does this situation mean? What can I do about it?

    Thanks for help!

    Best.
     
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    lead_org, Nov 30, 2010
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  3. MDDZ

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    Thanks very much for your information.

    Followed the instruction and ran the update utility tool (6ifu13ww_t410_t510.exe, Battery Firmware Update package bundled with dependencies for T410, T410i, T510, T510i, W510). But it says "There is no attached battery that requires a update"....

    Interesting.....

    Best.

    Edit: I got my T510 on 11/12/10
     
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    have you tried to uninstall and reinstall the Thinkvantage Power Manager?
     
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    Based my understanding of "Battery Firmware Update package bundled with dependencies", it has everything needed.

    Besides, I went to Control Panels->Progrram and Features. ThinkPad Power Manager is there, installed on 11/5/10, version is 3.28

    The Lenovo web page you gave indicates "All systems have a common dependency on the Power Management driver version 1.60.0.4 (6iku08ww) or later". My T510 should meet this requirement, correct? Or did I look at a wrong place?

    Regards.
     
    MDDZ, Nov 30, 2010
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