Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:33:51 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Charging problem
I have the 100CT and had a similar problem about 1 year ago. I had a spare battery at the time, so I just put it in and started to charge it / use it. It has been fine ever since. This suggests the O/C'ing and WIN XP have nothing to do with it, since I am still running at 166 MHz and WIN95. It was just a battery that had reached end of life, and the sensing circuit inside the 100CT is probably doing exactly what it is supposed to do to warn you of either low battery voltage or low charge rate. To verify this, I would suggest trying another known good battery to see if you get the same results. I know this may be impossible if you don't have another battery, but it is the best way to isolate the problem. Does anyone know how to connect a battery from another source, at least temporarily, just to verify the charging circuits are working correctly? Dick -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 2:10 PM To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] Charging problem Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:06:01 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Charging problem I'm having problems charging the battery on my 100CT too Raymond. I was about to post a question about it when I found your note. I've checked the service manual, aksed Iris, and search the Lib list archives, but can't find an answer. My 100 won't power on from the battery which sees to be dead, thought it had been powering the system fine the other day. It does boot with the AC adapter connected. But for some reason the LED for the battery suddenly started blinking twice quickly, staying on for a few seconds, then blinking twice again, and continuing that way. This pattern persists wither or not the system is booted. Unless there's a simple solution, I'm afraid either either the battery or charging circuit has gone bad. I'm wondering if this might be connected to having O/Ced the system to 266, and all of the WinXP crashes the system has been subjected to. Any thoughts on this would be much appreciated. Matt >From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Hi all! > > >Looks like my trusty L100 has decided that it doesn't want to play nice >anymore :-( > >I plug the power supply and battery in and, if the laptop is turned on, >the >charging light comes on and the power icon shows charging but the battery >never makes it beyond about 58%. Unplug external power and the battery >starts discharging. I get about 1h20m or so out of it which is about right >for a half charge given the age of the battery. > >However, things get weirder when the laptop is turned off. With the >laptop >plugged in, initially the power light goes green and the battery light goes >orange (as normal). However, after a while the battery light turns off >altogether (it SHOULD go green when the battery is charged) ... If I take >the battery pack out and plug it back in again, the orange charge light >comes back on for a while before going out altogether again. > >All this started quite suddenly ... it was all working OK then I ran >the >battery all the way down on a flight from Rome to Tokyo (on an Alitalia 767 >of all things ... don't get me started ...). These problems started the >next time I plugged it in (actually thats not quite true, the first time I >plugged it in, instead of the battery light coming on, the power light >flashed orange indicating a power problem) ... > >Anyone else seen such symptoms or have any ideas? > > >*sigh* I wish I found out this thing was having problems before I left >Tokyo (the next time I plugged it in after the flight was in Australia) ... >I could have gotten a nice replacement when I went to Akihabara! > > >- Raymond > >P.S. Yes, I'm back! Hopefully I'll be a little more active on the list >than >I have been for the past few months! _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. 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