Re: How can I recover a bum battery?

2010-05-23 Thread Richard Smith
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: ok batman-start ok bat-rewrite-life That fixed the second battery - when I plugged in the AC power to the XO, the Battery LED first turned yellow, and after a period of charging turned green.  I'm concluding the second

Re: How can I recover a bum battery?

2010-05-23 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
The first series of things see-bstate does after battery insertion would be useful. [on 1.5] remove the battery. ok see-bstate insert battery. Then copy the 1st 5 or 6 lines after the 0 1 2 's stop repeating. I booted the 1.5 on AC (without the battery). Entered 'see-bstate' at the

Re: How can I recover a bum battery?

2010-05-23 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 05/23/2010 02:37 PM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: I booted the 1.5 on AC (without the battery). Entered 'see-bstate' at the ok prompt - saw string of '0 3' repeating. Inserted bum battery. The Battery_LED on the 1.5 soon changed to yellow. Took the battery out of the 1.5 and put it into the

Re: How can I recover a bum battery?

2010-05-23 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I do have a serial port (and have used it) - but at the moment, none of my machines has its back off. For your interest, if you have an open wireless access point or a USB ethernet dongle supported by OFW, then you can capture OFW output using another system. The telnetd command starts

How can I recover a bum battery?

2010-05-22 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I'm asking for assistance - I now have two batteries for which the Battery LED will not light (stays dark) when AC power is plugged in. [With a good battery, that LED does light up green, as it should.] At $25 each, I don't want to just toss the bum batteries. These state changes happened during

Re: How can I recover a bum battery?

2010-05-22 Thread Richard Smith
In my specific case, wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Troubleshooting_Battery is not helpful enough.  [Results before/after 'batman-start' are not similar; results (after 'batman-start') with 'see-bstate' DO seem similar with either good or bum batteries (numbers don't cycle); ok bat-dump-banks Post

Re: How can I recover a bum battery?

2010-05-22 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
ok bat-dump-banks 1st battery, 1st boot : Regs 8 9 a b c d e f 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ffb22ea8 ff 6a ff ff ff ff ff 38 ba ff ff ff 52 78 e4 e9 ffb22eb8 20 7b ff ff ff ff ff ff 1f 5c e6 e1 ff ff ff ff Bank 0 ffb22ea8 00 00 00 00 00 30 70 78 00 18 01 90 6d 05

Re: How can I recover a bum battery?

2010-05-22 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 05/22/2010 01:17 PM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: ok bat-dump-banks 1st battery, 1st boot : Bank 0 ffb22ea8 00 00 00 00 00 30 70 78 00 18 01 90 6d 05 03 75 ffb22eb8 fe ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 2nd battery, 1st boot : Bank 0 ffb22e98 ff ff ff ff ff de

Re: How can I recover a bum battery?

2010-05-22 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
ok batman-start ok bat-rewrite-life That fixed the second battery - when I plugged in the AC power to the XO, the Battery LED first turned yellow, and after a period of charging turned green. I'm concluding the second battery is o.k. Thanks. If the rewrite does not fix things look at