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    Thinkpad T61p Cd Drive bay Battery Not Charging

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Wrath, Apr 14, 2009.

  1. Wrath

    Wrath Notebook Consultant

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    Hello denizens of the lenovo forum. I haven't posted here in well....forever since the t61p first came out. Anyway, my bay battery is at 3% and won't charge . I've tried it with just that battery in the computer and going to device manager to uninstall the batteries and then reinserting them, but to no luck. Any ideas or suggestions?
     
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    Did you try to re-calibrate in Power Manager?
     
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    I don't use the lenovo power manager, and I cant seem to find it under the common driver page at their website as it keeps coming up as file not found.
     
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    Well I got the power manager and it seems the battery is giving an error according to the software. Could the battery of just gone bad all of a sudden as it worked fine yesterday and held decent charge.
     
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    What's the error?
     
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    Wrath, Apr 15, 2009
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    How old is the battery? The modular batteries wear out quickly because they always discharge first. There's no way to change it. I had the modular battery for my R60. It was at less than 50% of capacity after four months of use. I found getting the nine-cell to be a better solution, though it does add a bit of weight. My nine cell is at 85% of capacity and it's over a year old.
     
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    Well my nine cell works fine and I've had both for about a year and a half now. I mean it was holding a decent charge just the day before when it went to crap.
     
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    After the first year, they can go any time.
     
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    I am a sad panda. Thanks for your wisdom Zaz.
     
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