ober Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 Ok, so a little background first: I was working in the airport on my latop and I had it plugged in. I had several things open at the time and I just closed the lid because I wanted to work on the plane. I got on the plane and decided to watch the movie they were playing first. When I pulled my laptop out again, it wasn't hibernating and no matter what I did, it would not turn back on. I got home, plugged it in the next morning and it booted up to an error message along the lines of "security error: something has been tampered with". So I brought it back into work and dropped it in the docking station and it booted fine. I'm currently typing on it now and it reports a 100% charge, yet the goddamn battery light is blinking. Does anyone have any idea what might be going on? Is my battery fried possibly? Sidenote: the latop is a IBM Z60m Thinkpad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted June 18, 2007 Author Share Posted June 18, 2007 Nevermind... did some more testing. Battery is completely shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 I don't know about IBM pricing, but when my Dell laptop battery pack went weird I saved almost $200 by getting a replacement one through eBay ... and it's still working 2 years later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilis_money Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 Bro if you want to fix it or at least understand what's happened to your laptop. You can visit IBM's website and look for "Service Manual" for your particular laptop model, then i suggest you download it. And look for the 'Error Messages Lengend' inside the Service Manual and it will give you an idea of the possibilities of what parts are damaged. good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted June 19, 2007 Author Share Posted June 19, 2007 Andy... it's a company laptop, so I'm not worred about the cost. But thanks for the suggestion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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