For information: dead battery freezes T60

[icebag]

Just in case it helps someone ...

I bought a T60 (15" 1400x1050 screen) on eBay. It was being sold very cheaply because it was freezing half way through starting up XP. I tried an Xubuntu hard drive from another T60, and it froze. I tried running Xubuntu from a live disk, and that froze too.

Then I removed the battery and everything worked perfectly!

[Brian10161]

hehe cool, lucked out eh?

Grab a new battery with the money you saved

[Raceboy]

Yes, I discovered that too about a year ago and was pleased that it was not a motherboard.

[rsutoratosu]

Glad im not the only one... it sucks but its weird.. other system I had with dead battery doesn't lock up the pc..

[richk]

It can happen with bad battery electronics. Almost all the times I have seen it, the machine had an aftermarket battery.

[Raceboy]

In my case it was with genuine Lenovo batteries, actually two of them. Both were Sanyos.

[icebag]

The battery in my machine was branded Lenovo.