Flashing Orange Z60M Battery Light

[fatboyjim]

Morning all,
Happy New Year and all that, for those that celebrate.

Question for the board: Suddenly, after hardly ever using my battery for my Z60M, the orange battery light has started flashing at me. The Windows power meter tells me that it's at 100% charge (same thing with another completely fresh battery that's never been used), but if I unplug the power cord, the laptop goes down as if the battery wasn't even present. It almost seems like it's a hardware issue, but I thought I'd ask around to see if anyone else had had the same issue.

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance,

FJ

[ryengineer]

What does ThinkVantage Power Manager tells you about the battery condition?

You can perform a reset which discharges the battery to an appropriate percentage and recharges it again.

[cpascu01]

You might be suffering from a dead battery. It just happened to my sister Lenovo N100.

[mindtrix]

Whoa... my Z60t just started doing it too a week ago. But my battery was only about 9 months old.

Have you tried this?

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... 67765.html

I ran this program and it told me that I qualified for the replacement program. Still waiting for the replacement though. They said it would be about 8 weeks before it comes. They know it's a defect in the battery, so why should I be inconvenienced for 2 months because of their poor quality control on the products they sell?

This is my second battery. The original one did the same thing after about a year of use.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I called in for tech support and they didn't even know about this problem. I had to guide the guy to their own website for them to believe me.

What gives with these batteries?

I wonder if this lack of quality is due to the thinkpad line now being manufactured by Lenovo... and not IBM.

[fatboyjim]

Mindtrix,

That's freaking fantastic, thankyou so much for pointing me in the direction of that website. It turns out that my battery is also being recalled (I'll wait a couple of weeks before I request my other battery be replaced as well).

Well, I guess it's not *fantastic* news that Lenovo can't make a half-assed battery, but at least it resolves my problem.

Oh, and FYI, it said that I should allow "up to 4 weeks for your replacement battery to arrive" when I submitted mine. Not sure what the difference in timing is; I'm only in Edmonton which I don't think is too far away from you.

Thanks for all the help, everyone.

FJ