Flashing Battery Light - A Battery Error Has Occured...

[loyukfai]

My X61T's battery was still working good the night before I went to sleep, but when I woke up, the battery LED was flashing rapidly, and Power Manager said "A battery error has occured. The battery cannot be charged. Replace the battery."

Tried unplugging it and re-inserting it for many times to no avail.

Since I'm travelling and getting a replacement here could be tricky, is there relatively easy way to fix it...?

Cheers.

[Harryc]

No fix...replacement is the only option.

[loyukfai]

Well that's bad news.

Anyway thanks.

Cheers.

P.S. Here's my theory, the controller chip in the battery has decided a pre-mature death by itself, for some reasons. Anyway, found a program here (http://be2works.com/) which may change the EEPROM data. However, I don't have the hardware anyway so.

In case anybody has used it to successfully revived a dead battery, please do let me know.

[loyukfai]

Want to ask another question, is it for the replacement of the battery, or the replacement of the system logic board...?

Cheers.

[Harryc]

In my experience, sudden battery death is 99.9% of the time due to a bad cell or cells in the battery. It is unlikely that it is the system board unless if just started to fail charging a battery out of the blue. Your symptom is different "A battery error has occured". Seems pretty self explanatory .

[loyukfai]

Got a replacement battery, which is now charging.

Cheers.