Power manager weird bug?

[hserus]

Hi. Brand new X60s here.

Ran the software installer (rather than system update 3) to update some software drivers .. and came up with a power manager + power management driver version that seems to be the latest from the lenovo website -

ThinkPad Power Management Driver 1.43
ThinkPad Power Manager 1.16

And then I started getting an error where the power management applet would briefly show me errors like battery not present (and the applet grayed out), or battery has less than 1% charge in it, 26 minutes to charge. And the Message Center sends me "Battery Error is detected". This lasts for a few seconds after which the battery indicator goes back to normal.

However - the power manager applet's battery information screen says the battery is just fine.

Screenshots here -




ps: Anybody know a usable driver for the thinkpad? I installed the one in MIGR 68057 (6.14.10.4785) and am not able to find an alternative driver .. one I downloaded off the Intel website says "not validated for your installation, please contact your vendor"

thx
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[hserus]

The battery seems functional and doesnt power off the laptop even if the indicator shows 0% and then comes back later.

Anybody else seeing this?

thanks
srs

[hserus]

somebody got a link to the older version of the driver? have tried uninstalling and reinstalling this current driver 2..3 times, no go

lenovo support suggested a system restore to an earlier point, something I am not particularly interested in doing unless as a last resort.

[hserus]

Ah, so its a battery issue.

http://www.lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=52
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-67765