On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 13:58, martin f krafft wrote: > high folks, > > Excuse this off-topic post, I have yet again the desire to profit from > your wisdom... > > I have a couple of batteries for my Dell laptops. Some of these > haven't been in a system for months. Now I check one after the other, > just to find that two of the batteries seem dead. APM (as well as the > Dell BIOS) indicates 0% charge but status "Charging..." and yet, not > even a tiny percent was added to the charge over the last two hours. > It's still at 0%. > > Do you have any hints on what I could do to revive these batteries? > I just can't believe that they die because of lack of attention...
FWIW, I've had the same problem with a Thinkpad battery; a replacement battery exhibited the same symptoms soon after purchase. IBM support diagnosed it as a failed DC-DC converter board but then redirected me to a non-existent local service to have it replaced. :-( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
