Battery won't be recognized

[swiatmar]

Hello!!

I have some problem with my Thinkpad x60. For few days I've got a massage about my battery error. I was unable to run it on Windows and Ubuntu (have 2 OS)
Because I couldn't find the reason for the error I decided to buy a new battery on ebay. It was not an original battery. Now my computer is saying that it is not an original battery and it wouldn't be load?

Is it possible to disable this check function in this laptop? Or does any body has experience with this problem and know a good solution?

Regards
Mar

[rkawakami]

Welcome to thinkpads.com!

Power Manager seems to be able to detect non-Lenovo batteries and will in some cases refuse to charge them. I do have a couple of X60 systems running non-OEM batteries and so far they all charge. Except for a recent incident where an aftermarket battery became VERY hot and I had to shut down the system .

As far as I know, you can connect the battery to an external charger and it should charge.

ref: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-61244

[swiatmar]

Wow!!!
Thank you for your answer

But the same thing happens on my kubuntu !! Is there maybe a way to disable the power manager?

Can you maybe give me a tipp which non-Lenovo battery is running well on X60?

I have no idea what to buy.

I've got a normal china battery from ebay.........

[rkawakami]

I don't have any of the X60 systems with me at the moment but I'll check the non-OEM batteries and post details later tonight. I think I still have two or three of them. I have been replacing them with 8-cell factory batteries recently as I found some good deals on eBay.

As far as disabling Power Manager, I have not attempted to do that. I had assumed that software is reading something in the built-in memory of the battery pack and if it does not see the proper information, it pops up the warning message and disables the charging circuitry. If you are getting the same type of actions with Ubuntu then maybe there's something in the BIOS that does the battery check.

[swiatmar]

Okey!!

This is really strange. My laptop is loading the battery but only then if it is turned off!!

When I am working it is not loading. Strange Lenovo philosophy

[pkiff]

For what it's worth, on my X60 Tablet, I was able to install and charge two non-Lenovo clone batteries (though they each lasted only for a month or two before dying or becoming unusable).

I would get a notice in the system tray warning me that I was not using a genuine Lenovo battery, every time I started up or returned from suspend/hibernation, and I had to click on that pop-up to make it go away. But the battery did not have problems charging for about a month.

After a month or two, the generic clone batteries stopped working properly. In my case, I either started getting an amber light and the battery would refuse to charge, or I actually got a red error mark in the power manager telling me that the battery was defective/dead/whatever.

I gave up using clones for my machine, and have since been using genuine Lenovo batteries, and am very pleased with their performance. Periodically, you can get "used"/resold but genuine Lenovo batteries on sale through the Lenovo Outlet store website for less than $100 each. The only problem I have is that the Lenovo Canada site does not also offer these sales periodically, and so I think these inexpensive genuine batteries are only available to the U.S. market. I'm not sure if these deals are available in Austria, where it looks like you are located.

Phil.