I tried that. When the battery is in, the laptop starts powering on, the leds turn on like they should, but than it runs out of power. Even if the ac adapter is plugged in. When the battery is removed even that doesnt happen. Just a short orange blink of the battery led.

Now the orange light is blinking, like when the battery is on 5% power or less, blinking pretty quick, not like when its charging.

Hi guys! I am having problems with powering up my ibm t42. The battery is empty, so I cant turn it up on battery power. But, when I connect it to the ac adapter, it wont power up either. The orange battery led blinks two times quickly and than nothing happens. The battery doesnt charge and no led is...

Ok so the thing is: I went into safe mode and waited for 3 minutes for HDD to spin down. So it spun down after 3 min. and it didnt spin just by itself as it does in normal mode. So i gues there is a service or an app that is constantly accessing the HDD...i wish i knew which one it is! If anyone sol...

Ok thanks...I will try all of that and see if it works. I tried allready killing the processes in taskbar to see wich one makes the hdd spin up without success.

Thanks for your, reply... i already figured out what was wrong. I went into bios in i had to select "customized" option when the ac is unpluged, and enable spin down in the bios. Now the hdd can spin down but i have another problem: I was hoping, that when i am writing in word or im browsing the web...

I set the turn off hard disk after 3 min option on, but my hdd just wont spin down. I searched this forum for any solutions but i couldnt find it. It would be great to spin the hdd down, so my t42 would be even more quiet. I am using fan control and NHC. I tried all the options in my power managemen...