Check battery health.

[rabbarba]

Hi, i wonder how to check my battery's "health". You know, cycles and that stuff. Is it some program you download or sumthing?!
Could someone paste a link?

[eTools]

Go to Power Manager or Battery Maximizer and look under battery information. You can also go to ThinkPad Configuration, System Information > Details and look for battery information.

Full Charge Capacity vs. Design Capacity along with Cycles will give you the information you need.

[rabbarba]

Cant find it.

Is it something that comes with the Lenovo install?
Cause i've reinstalled my xp..

[mysbca]

You can download the Lenovo software and drivers, including either the battery maximiser or power manager here (depending on your model):
Thinkpad Software and Device Drivers

Or you can download the Software Installer program and use that to help you find and install the Lenovo software/drivers.

[tomh009]

Cant find it.

Is it something that comes with the Lenovo install?
Cause i've reinstalled my xp..

Once you have the ThinkPad software:

Access IBM > ThinkPad Configuration ... and then click the battery button on the toolbar.

[tfflivemb2]

Actually, it depends on what kind of system you have, as to whether or not you can check the cycles on the battery. A/T/X/R/G systems have this capability, but older systems like the 600/5xx/3xx, etc. systems do not have the capability to provide that kind of information.

What kind of system do you have?

[rabbarba]

I've got a thinkpad T43 2669 E65.
Gonna try downloading it.

[AlphaKilo470]

On my 600 as well as the T21 I used to own, I used MobileMeter which had a feature that could tell me how much of the original design capacity was left and how much my battery had degraded.