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Hello,

I have been having a problem with my Lenovo T60. It will randomly shut down and will not turn on until I take the battery off and put it back in. Sometimes that doesnt work and I have to plug it in and then run it a while without a battery. I talked with the guy at my local computer repair store and he said it may or may not be the battery. He said if its not the battery its the mother board and will costs upwards of 300 dollars. I have already put a lot of money into repairs for this computer.

This is my third battery for this computer and it is prob 5 months old.

Has anyone had similar problems?

Thanks

If it runs fine without the battery installed, but dies with the battery installed, then it's the battery. Let me guess, this is not a Genuine IBM battery?

Well when I have it plugged in without a battery it still fails to start half the time. And I dont believe it is an IBM battery.

Palmed wrote:Well when I have it plugged in without a battery it still fails to start half the time. And I dont believe it is an IBM battery.

That sounds like a different problem. Try a real IBM T60 battery (borrow one if you can) as a test.

I wholeheartedly agree with the advice about only using a genuine IBM or Lenovo battery.

Although keep in mind that the most frequent cause of random freezes or shutdowns is overheating.

I would download a good freeware temperature monitoring utility such as Core Temp, and note the temp when the the system is running, if it is at ~125°F (52°C) like mine is as I type this, then you are fine, but if it starts getting up around 160°F (71°C) or higher then that is likely your trouble.

If the system is overheating, take the keyboard off and clean the fan and heatsink fins with a clean new trim paintbrush and a vacuum cleaner (hold the fan blade still to keep from spinning over design RPM) and also consider cleaning old thermal paste from CPU/GPU and replacing with fresh Arctic Silver!

I have the same issue. T61P Laptop just returned from depot because of "known issue" with motherboard/video card dying (3 days after on site warranty expired ).

Received back today after two weeks and now laptop shuts off within 5 minutes of boot up. Same issue whether battery installed or not (genuine ibm and less than 1yo).

IBM says sending a new box and back to depot. Won't bother telling me what the issue is. Can't really afford to lose another 2 weeks so hoping a solution will present itself.

On another note looking for a new laptop and want something comparable to a T410S from anyone but than Lenovo. Any suggestions I should review?

Thanks!

had the same problem and I thought it was a battery as well. But it was over heating.

so get yourself a strong air can ., then blow out the fan system, and it will probably spit out a big dust ball. Mine did. And then it stopped crashing

Whenever you use anything stronger than blowing with your mouth, you MUST physically stop the fan from spinning!
Especially canned air will make the fan spin WAY over it's design of maybe 4500rpm and blow the bearing to bits.