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Posted: **Sat Mar 12, 2011 4:14 am**

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!

Posted: **Sat Mar 12, 2011 7:43 am**

hehe cool, lucked out eh?

Grab a new battery with the money you saved

Posted: **Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:57 pm**

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

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:00 am**

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

Posted: **Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:01 pm**

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

Posted: **Wed Mar 16, 2011 3:46 pm**

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

Posted: **Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:56 am**

The battery in my machine was branded Lenovo.

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