Thinkpad not charging the battery
If you have a Thinkpad and you happen to run into the state where your laptop doesn’t charge the battery anymore, here are the common solutions for the problem:
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shutdown your laptop, remove the battery and unplug the power cable. Hold the power button for 10 seconds. Plug battery and power cable and power on your laptop.
- update the BIOS.
- send the laptop for service
Although the 1st option may look funny, it works indeed. It didn’t work in my case, but it was the first suggestion from other people that had run into the problem and fixed it by using this trick. It is also one of the first things you get asked to do when you call customer service. One of the bad things about laptops is that everything is integrated in the system board, so even if you have just a small problem, the complete system board needs to be replaced. Since the system board is the most requested part, sometimes the wait can be longer.
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June 18th, 2010 at 2:37 am
Sorry…I should have make a comment earlier. I think that it is correct. Keep up the good work. I’ll be back soon
July 26th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
THANK YOU!!!! I thought my battery was completely dead, because it was blinking yellow all the time. I tested the battery on several computers with the same result. Now, it started charging – Amazing! Apparently, it is something that has to be initiated or reinitiated on the battery circuit, because it is not the computer that’s wrong – just the battery.
Again, you saved me approx 80 bucks and gave me the smile of the day – THANK YOU!
All the best,
Marcus – Umeå, Sweden