sounds like a problem with the battery. I have an HP n6395 and it does
the same thing. I keep the system plugged in almost all the time and
follow the manufacturer's battery care recommendations (wait till fully
discharged before charging, cycle battery, etc...) you might see if IBM
has some software to check the battery, or like HP, re-calibrate it. If
the system is under warranty, I'd suggest calling them, as I'm sure they
can help.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt [mailto:matthew@textbox.net]
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 5:07 PM
To: SLUG
Subject: [SLUG] Questions about laptop batteries
I got an IBM ThinkPad 390e about 8 months ago and when I first got it
the battery life was not bad at all - mostly lasting about 3 hours. I
keep it on power all the time but I do cycle it from time to time to
keep the health of it somewhat decent. I had win98/winxp on here for
about 3 months and I could set my watch by the life, it was always
exactly the same.
Last week when I went to cycle it I notice that once I get down to about
91% it drops to 5% and alerts me. Now that I been testing it I notice
it's doing this every time I go to cycle.
I have been using gkrellm and xapm to watch the time/power left but
wanted to know if there are any other tools I can use or tricks to find
out what exactly is going on.
I use SuSE 8.1 Pro
-- Matt <matthew@textbox.net> Textbox Networks
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