New (to me) T60 after updates locks up on battery power

First off i would like to thank you guys for the very informative site!

Ive been on here reading and searching for answers for the past 2 days.

While ive found related posts, none seem to exactly answer the problem im having so i thought id (humbly) ask for some help.

So purchased a off lease t-60 with the following specs.

ThinkPad T60 2623-D6U 1.83GHz
80 GB HD
1024 MB Ram
ATI Radeon X1300

After it arrived i was very pleased with the condition of the laptop and having shopped around for over a month though i paid a fair price at $399+shipping.

Since ive owned it ive done very minimal things to it such as just loading a few programs (cs2, and my messenger toolbars) and loading my pictures and music (about 3.5 gb's worth of music.)

I then brought it in to my buddy at work whos my resident computer guy to check it out for me.

He proceeded to load all the updates from microsoft and get it on the newer SP3, with additional updates that were needed.

When on plug power Laptop works perfectly fine.

Immediatley after laptop pc is taken off of the power cable within about 20 secs it locks up and requires a power down to use again.

Also if powered up on battery only it will run through the startup and get to my desktop screen then within the same 20 secs the pointer locks and have to restart.

I went ahead and used a restore point to verify that the latest download is indeed what is causing the problem and what do you know pc works fine when restored to before last update.

So im curious which one of the updates needs rolled back to keep my laptop working as its supposed to.

Id like to be able to utilize the newer SP3, and associated update so i undid the restore point and will be using a power plug until i figure it out.

Any help or suggestions is greatly appriciated and thanks in advance for youre time.

 

What does Power Manager say about the condition of your battery? Can you procure another battery for testing purposes?

 

have you checked the Lenovo Website for updates to the Lenovo Power Managment software? it shoulds like an incompatability between an update and the power manager. Lenovo has an update program that will automatically find and install all your updated drivers.

 

Thanks for the tips.

As for the battery it seem to hold a decent charge and i can get about 3.5-4 hours of use.

I dont have the laptop in front of me so ill have to double check when i get home the status of the battery.

I also dont have another battery yet but do plan on getting a backup.

Although i would think if it were a battery issue that it would also not work when i used the restore point to get back to the previous update...but it did.

Ill give the Lenovo update program a try when i get home and see if that helps the problem.

I looked on the lenovo site and this is the page i found the update on http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=TVAN-ADMIN#pmat ill give it a try when i get home.
If this isnt the correct one if someone could guide me to it i would appriciate it!

Thanks for the suggestions and keep them coming if anyone else had a similar problem.

 

Well i am home now and looked at the power manager and everything appears fine i have about a 90% charge.
I also went to the lenovo site and downloaded the new Lenovo Power Managment update and it still has not fixed the problem.
I also downloaded pc doctor and did a scan and everything came back fine.
So needless to say im at a loss as what to do next... any suggestions?
Thanks!

 

It could honestly be anything. It's so hard to say. It could be one thing, it could be a combination of things. You could do the roll back then apply the updates one at a time. Sounds fun right? Perhaps a clean install with just SP3 and the latest drivers might work if you can get a XP disc.

 

Thats probably what im going to do ask painstaking as it seems.
I do have a backup partition on the laptop and restore from that.
Or would it be better to do it from disk?
I can burn it to one if neccissary.
One things for sure im learning much more about my laptop and how computers work in general.
I guess thats always a good thing!
Thanks for your help.