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Good morning. Apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere, but I believe have tried every single piece of advice I have read on the web to no avail.

So I upgraded my trusty X61 Tablet to Windows 7 Pro and added RAM and and an SSD. All working beautifully. I picked up an extra original (Sanyo) 4-cell battery from ITXChange just to have as a spare, as they have excellent prices on those. The darn battery would not charge, so they sent me a second one, and would not charge either. This makes me think there is something wrong with my hardware or software that makes a charge from 0% not possible (old battery works just fine, and it's also an original). I have tried a gazillion things to attempt to charge these new batteries (disable/uninstall the Microsoft battery controller, disable/uninstall Power Manager, change to Maximum Battery Life, freeze battery, update all drivers/software, you name it). Sometimes the battery gauge will say 0% plugged-in charging and just stay stuck in there, and some other times it will say 0% plugged-in not charging. The weird thing is that the same exact thing happens with both new batteries.

Any other ideas? I am really at a loss here....

Thank you very much in advance!

No problems with your old battery?

Then both "new" batterys could be broken. Simply stored without a charge for too long. What is the manufacturing date for those?

Manufactured on 2008-12-28; cycle count 0.

The thought crossed that both may have been sitting out with no charge for too long, and thus died in the process, but did not think that was very likely.

That is more than 6 years of storage. Not unusual to have some that will not take a charge.

wileE wrote:That is more than 6 years of storage. Not unusual to have some that will not take a charge.

Seconding WileE, 6 years of storage is right at the threshold of a LiIon battery failing from simply losing charge on the shelf. I've bought plenty of NOS thinkpad batteries of 5-8 years old that were DOA just from discharge in storage. OTOH, if it does charge, then it's still fine.

Seconding WileE, 6 years of storage is right at the threshold of a LiIon battery failing from simply losing charge on the shelf. I've bought plenty of NOS thinkpad batteries of 5-8 years old that were DOA just from discharge in storage. OTOH, if it does charge, then it's still fine.

Plus, controllers like the battery block batteries due to any problems. I have recently completely block the original battery is 80% charged.
I have old laptops that more than 10 years and they are still working battery, the truth is not so good.

I had to return 3 times the batteries marked as new from an online seller before I got one that would run.

On the other hand, I have a spare tablet battery with very few cycles that I would like to sell