The T60 and other models from the same era definitely have a battery failure problem. Having experienced the "your battery has totally died, go jump in a lake" error myself on a T60 and done loads of research on it I can attest to that fact. I've seen a significant trend of these total battery failures (and I don't mean weak batteries, I mean going from solid to totally dead instantly) over the last 9 months or so. Lenovo even has a battery recall program for several classes of batteries with the exact description of the problem scenario but they haven't expanded it enough to include all failing part numbers. See this thread on the Lenovo support forum for additional discussion: http://forums.lenovo.com/lnv/board/message?board.id=T_Series_Thinkpads&thread.id=4781
That being said, the problem described here by the OP does not sound like the same situation. If the unit won't power up on AC alone with the battery removed then the problem is not primarily the battery, it is the AC adapter. Rob On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:00 -0700, "RayBay" <[email protected]> wrote: > This problem is cropping up more and more among our industrial and > insurance > clients. We are beginning to think Thinkpads of the T60 variety have a > problem. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
