At 5:06 PM -0400 7/26/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>My PB 520c has one intelligent battery that refuses to take any charge. I
>have tried "Battery Condition", "Emmpathy 2.0", "Battery Amnesia 1.5.2" and
>"LIND BU500 Deluxe 2.01".
>
>I thought I had it with "LIND BU500 Deluxe 2.01". It reported 4 errors and
>could only fix 3 of them. The last error says to call Lind Electronics...LOL
> Intelligent Battery Recondition (IBR) is better at seeing the
>battery that is difficult. See if it will run its' routine, and IGNORE its
>telling you to send the battery back to Apple (also ignore any message by
>EMMpathy that it can't repair the microprocessor). The tests of both IBR
>and EMMpathy of the microprocessor of the battery are inordinately
>rigorous, and eliminate a lot of chargeable and useable batteries. Run IBR
>a few times, and then see if EMMpathy will run. If it does, alternate
>between it and IBR, and take a look at Smart Probe each time. This is the
>most incredible source of information about your battery going, and will
>tell you the capacity of your battery, and whether or not it has any
>charging capacity available.
> I've had a couple of batteries which weren't seen because of broken
>plastic across the connectors of the battery, so you mcould check this.
>Paul
Above is my way to get them working, and to hell with the
intelligent bit.
Paul
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