The Lenovo battery check for the 600 should not be relied upon... we have not found it even close to accurate in the 20 600x units we use as rentals. Still, it may be better than nothing, I suppose. ________
There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. .. ... .... ..... ...... ....... ........ Jerome K. Jerome On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Philip Kiff <pk...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > >>> Jeffrey Race wrote: > >>>> can someone point me to the battery-testing utility which runs > >>>> down batteries and/or evaluates their quality somehow? I have > >>>> a bunch of 600 batteries I'd like to evaluate.tks jeffrey race > >>>> ps pls also advise any gotchas > > >> Chris Schumann wrote: > >>> Lenovo support, enter your model number, click Downloads and > >>> Drivers, and the battery check diskette is one of the downloads. > > > Philip Kiff wrote: > >> I don't think this "battery check" software works with 600 series > >> machines. > > Chris Schumann wrote: > > It does. I ran it yesterday. They specifically list it for the 600, > > 600E and 600X. > > > > BTW, this page has instructions on how to run down your battery on the > > 600 or 600E using the built-in tests: > > > http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4PJN9L > > Well I'll be darned. I stand corrected. And it looks like this software has > been around since all the way back in 2000, too. Still learning things > about > these machines after almost 10 years. Thanks for the info, Chris. > > Phil. > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > Thinkpad@stderr.org > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list Thinkpad@stderr.org http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
