Hi I have a ThinkPad R31. It came with a battery but I think it is totally shot, but before I buy a new one I wanted to make sure.
The battery light is green 99% of the time. The machine will not run off the battery either, but occasionally the light will go orange for a little while which I presume means it is charging for a bit. Is there a way of checking the battery life/status/cycles. On my Mac there is a tool called CoconutBattery which tells you how charged the battery is, how many times its been charged, how much of the original capacity is the battery holding and hold your battery is. It is a great tool. Is there something like this for either XP or Ubuntu. Simon -- --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad R31 running Ubuntu 10.10 & Windows XP Home. Apple PowerBook G3 'Pismo' running OSX 10.4. Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro running 2.1 _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
