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I'm getting connections tray and power meter failures whenever I run on battery power. What typically happens is that the wireless adapter shuts down and then when I try to shut the PC, I get either a connections tray or a power meter failure. After getting those messages, the PC eventually locks up and I have to hold the power button to force it to shut down.

I'm running a T60 with XP Pro. Just ran HiJack this and did not see anything that looked funky. I can post the log if it will help.

Any suggestions on a solution?

Have you tried the latest ThinkPad Power Management driver for Windows?

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... GXPEG.html

Updated the power manager and the wireless adapter is still shutting down. What else can I try?

The problem seems to be related to the strength of the wireless signal and whether my PC is plugged in or not.

If my PC is plugged into the outlet, the wireless adapter works fine.

If it is running on battery power it shuts down, but only when the laptop is downstairs. I've had the laptop running on battery power for 40 minutes in the room next to my office, where the wireless router is, on my house's second floor, and everything is working just fine.

So the problem seems to only occur when the T60 is running on battery and is on a different floor than the router. This was not a problem until the last six months or so.

Any suggestions?

Perhaps a heat problem? You might install MobileMeter. Worthwhile tool in any case to see what your T60 is doing. It's kind of a stretch that your wireless card is using more power to push the signal farther -- I don't think it works that way -- but you could also try setting its transmit power to say 50% as an experiment. You can do this through Access Connections if you use it or maybe through the Device Manager.

Quoted from another thread :
"In device manager go into the properties for the WiFi card, click on the advanced tab and make sure Power Save mode is set to disabled."

See last post in this thread :
http://www.thinkpads.com/forum/viewtopi ... +save+mode

I have the "save power" button checked off. I'm also not using AC right not manage the connection, but continue to have the wireless adapter shut down when I'm on battery power. (AC is still on my PC, but does not boot at start up).

About six months ago, I reinstalled Windows in attempt to solve the problem. My PC runs faster, but it did not solve the issue.

As far as MobileMeter, it looks like the program has not been updated in a while, which is fine, but I see it listed on some sites that I've never heard off. Any recommendations as to where I should get it from?

sweat wrote: As far as MobileMeter, it looks like the program has not been updated in a while, which is fine, but I see it listed on some sites that I've never heard off. Any recommendations as to where I should get it from?

You should use Core Temp instead of MobileMeter with a dual-core CPU.

http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp

I have Core Temp running.

It is showing a high of 65 for Core #0 and a high of 67 for Core #1. Is that normal?

I also downloaded a wireless network scanner to see if anything might be interfering and changed the channel of my wireless router to a setting that no other nearby networks are using. Figured it couldn't hurt to try. Wireless card has been running for five minutes on battery power, so fingers crossed....