Updating BIOS without charged battery - battery board

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390E77 · #1 Post by **390E77** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:43 pm

Hi. My battery doesn't work and its new, so i'm going to update my bios. But to do that i need to full battery otherwise it wont let me update it. How can i upgrade my BIOS without a battery? Please help! Thanks.

390E77.

#2 Post by **BillMorrow** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:42 am

very tough to even TRY to do this..

but before anyone can make even a passing suggestion, we need to know which thinkpad model that you have..

and

the easiest way to do this is to get a charged battery..

also, please post in the correct confrence..
and no multi posts, please..

390E77 · #3 Post by **390E77** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 3:18 am

its a 390E. Its the second battery i buy and doesn-t work. could you help me found out why it doesn-t work? when i slide it in the charging led lights up, the orange one, but after a couple seconds the light turns off again. The last thing i can try is updating my bios, but i need a fully charged battery for that which is quite ironic. Please help me.

and sorry about the multi post - i wont do it again, its just that i needed help fast

Batuta · #4 Post by **Batuta** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 9:43 am

390E77 · #5 Post by **390E77** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:15 pm

Ok, i shall explain everything.
I got the thinkpad 390E off my dad. The battery he gave me with it appears to hold no charge because when i slide it in the orange led comes up, then a couple seconds later it goes green. So i figured it could not hold a charge anymore.

So i bought one off ebay and got it. When i slide that one in, it appears to be charging for a couple of seconds and then the led turns off. But the computer still tells me the battery is charging (on windows) and stays at 2-3%. So i sent the battery back to the ebay seller and he sent me another one.

Same thing happened again, which annoyed me a lot. So i figured that there was a problem with my computer/OS/BIOS. i got windows 2000 and it works perfectly. The bios is very old so i thought that could be the problem. But could it be the battery board of the actual laptop? Please help me!

d lehmann · #6 Post by **d lehmann** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 11:39 pm

I have updated several different bios without a battery in them at all, but this was on later models. A warning message doesn't prevent you from proceeding, but if you choose to, do so at your own risk.

390E77 · #7 Post by **390E77** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 11:44 pm

yeah, but on mine it wont let me proceed unfortunately. all i can do is restart the laptop. Thanks tho.
Any ideas as to why my battery doesn't work properly? battery board?

#8 Post by **K. Eng** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:43 am

Sounds like the charging circuits on your system board have gone bad

I think it is very unlikely that you got many bum batteries. Is there any way you could test your new battery on another 390?

Batuta · #9 Post by **Batuta** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 9:57 am

390E77 · #10 Post by **390E77** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 11:43 am

oh ok. thanks guys. So how do i fix the charging circuits then? is it the same as the battery board?
Cause if it is it is cheap to replace it --->

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

Thanks for the help

oh wait - - is it the actual motherboard i have to replace???????

390E77 · #11 Post by **390E77** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 1:01 pm

does anyone know?

390E77 · #12 Post by **390E77** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 5:13 am

well i ordered a new battery board and hopefully that should fix the problem. thanks for your help guys.

Updating BIOS without charged battery - battery board

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