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Hello,

I have a x60 notebook for almost 2y now, and an (new) 8-cell battery with it. It worked like a charm until now.

Today, I just unplugged my notebook from the wall and worked for some time, until it suddenly turned off. I was surprised, because my notebook was in the charger for an hour or two before that, and I spent like 10 minutes with wifi-on, writing text and reading articles.

Next think is, it didn't turned on. I plugged the charger in and it turns on, but won't charge the battery. Currently I'm in state (tested in linux and windows, both shows the same values:

- running from AC, battery plugged in
- ACPI/SMAPI thinks, that battery is 98% charged (43Wh)
- BIOS thinks battery is empty (battery LED is blinking)
- when I try to force discharge (or "reset gauge"), it just turns off instantly
- also turns off instantly when I disconnect AC power

I've tried to remove the battery during work, with all combinations of reset, it always shows the same. The charger seems to work fine. I also tried to reset bios settings. Nothing helped.

Have anyone of you noticed something like this? Is is battery or AC dead, or is it bios fault?

Thanks.

Is it listed in here :

ASM P/N FRU P/N
92P1072 92P1073
92P1088 92P1089
92P1142 92P1141
92P1170 92P1169, 93P5028
92P1174 92P1173, 93P5030

This table comes from :
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... ATT-LENOVO

It's the battery recall program, I've read those batteries could stop working for no reasons so ...

I had the exact same thing happen to my X60s.

Ended up buying a cheap Chinese replacement off ebay, honestly works almost as well as I remember the original working.

Thanks for the replies. It none of those (and since I'm running linux now, I can't use their utility. Will try tomorrow.

As for the new battery, I probably will buy a new one. But I'd like to be sure it's the battery before I do it.

Sounds like a failed battery to me.

As long as the battery charges somewhat, that is the ONLY possibility.

Hello,

a new battery from china just arrived yesterday (hey that was a long time!) and it works and charges just fine, so the battery was really dead and it's not a bigger problem (yey!). I will probably try to get a battery with bad cells and good electronics and switch them, hope it will do it.

Thanks for your help!