grego@scruffy.sgi.com (Greg Orsini) (05/26/89)
HELP! My Toshiba T1000 laptop died. I ran it on internal power only until it ran out of power (I'm color blind so I can't see the power light change from green to red indicating battery low). This has happened before. I just plug it in and let it charge. This time it just doesn't seem to take. I opened up the machine and probed around with a volt meter. The batteries were at about 4.2 volts. I believe they should be close to 5. I unplug the batteries from the motherboard and checked voltage on the motherboard battery socket, about 1 volt. Hmmm. I check the transformer output, 9 V. I plugged it back into the laptop and found 9V on the motherboard. Hmmm. Well, I had read the article on the net recently about replacing batteries in laptops so I decided to give it a try. I bought some new Everready quick charging NiCads. Says on the package it will charge in 7 hours. I replaced the batteries and the system worked. But only while the transformer is plugged in. When I unplug it, this system dies in about 10-15 minutes. What have I done? Any help any of you can offer will be appreciated. Greatly. Regards, Greg Orsini (408) 476-5292 grego@scruffy.sgi.com ucbvaxsgi.com!grego
mike@relgyro.stanford.edu (Mike Macgirvin) (05/27/89)
In article <33644@sgi.SGI.COM> grego@scruffy.sgi.com (Greg Orsini) writes: >HELP! My Toshiba T1000 laptop died. I ran it on internal power only until > >Well, I had read the article on the net recently about replacing batteries >in laptops so I decided to give it a try. I bought some new Everready quick >charging NiCads. Says on the package it will charge in 7 hours. I replaced Most Ni-cads need to be 'trained'. Charge/discharge them 5 or 6 times, then they manage to hold a charge after that. ------------------------------------------------------- "There must be some kind of way out of here." Mike Macgirvin - mike@relgyro.stanford.edu (36.64.0.50) -------------------------------------------------------