[W500] Battery suddenly died?

[Kogey]

Hey, I was sitting at a table while eating breakfast watching Top Gear when suddenly my laptop shut off, my battery meter said I had about 40% charge still, so I grab my power cable, plug it in and now it says my battery has failed due to normal wear? How could this happen when it's been working fine the past 5 months I've had it and still holding a decent charge (About 2 and a half hours) and just suddenly dead. Is this common?

http://i.imgur.com/Z8emiOL.png

It's an official Lenovo extended battery manufactured in 2009 and it came used with my W500

[ajkula66]

The controller chip in the battery has decided that it's time for your battery to be pronounced dead and there's nothing you can do about it.

Get a (genuine Lenovo) battery with Panasonic cells, they usually last twice as long as their Sanyo/Sony counterparts.

Good luck.

[Kogey]

The controller chip in the battery has decided that it's time for your battery to be pronounced dead and there's nothing you can do about it.

Get a (genuine Lenovo) battery with Panasonic cells, they usually last twice as long as their Sanyo/Sony counterparts.

Good luck.

It is a genuine Lenovo with Panasonic cells :/

[ajkula66]

It is a genuine Lenovo with Panasonic cells :/

Well, then you were just plain unlucky. I've never had this happen with a Panasonic battery, and I've gone through hundreds of them.