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    T500 can't see battery details in Power Manager

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by adrianblack, Jul 21, 2010.

  1. adrianblack

    adrianblack Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a strange and slightly annoying problem on my T500. Windows 7 Ultimate and the other day I went to look at my battery condition and I noticed all of the details are missing. So I updated to the latest version of Power Manager (now 3.25) using System Update but no change.

    Rebooted. Power cycled. Reseated the battery. No change....

    Computer runs fine on battery ... gauge seems to be accurate. I even did a gauge reset last night.

    Anyone seen a problem like this? I will dig up another battery at work and give it a try and see if it's my battery or the hardware or OS.

    (See attached screenshots to see what it looks like.)
     

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    adrianblack Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well I'll be .... just to see if Power Manager could read any battery, I inserted my UltraBay battery .... Suddenly it was reading all of the info for both batteries.

    How annoying... but I guess it's good to know it does work.

    What a strange glitch.

    (See screenshots.)

    It's pretty cool my main battery still has the majority of it's capacity after 1.5 years of owning this laptop. Not many charge cycles but it's plugged in 24/7 and is my main computer.

    (I keep the charge settings set to 70% start, 90% end.)
     

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    jason930 Notebook Enthusiast

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    i am using x61, after upgrade the power manager software, the result is same as yours.
    i need to uninstall the latest version and install older version, the details can be shown again
     
    jason930, Jul 21, 2010
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