[Cialug] bios fubar?

[neal daringer]

josh, i'm 99% sure this is the case that i have. while the machine is 
powered on, i can use it like normal, reinserting the battery while it 
is powered on, it is added as a new device(battery), but it has strange 
characters for its make/model. too bad this dinosaur of a laptop still 
has pricey batteries (~$100-150).

Josh More wrote:
> I have seen laptops that wouldn't even turn on if they had a bad
> battery.  My understanding is that the following logic applies to
> certain older laptops (no clue about new ones).
>
> If the battery exists, route all power through it and on to the
> mainboard.
> If the battery does not exist, send the power directly to the mainboard.
>
> I think that the purpose is to keep the battery charged and possibly to
> condition the power.  The flaw is that if the battery is in bad enough
> shape to not hold charge, but in good enough shape to advertise it's
> presence to the analog board, power will route into it... but not out.
>
> I suspect that this is what you are experiencing.
>
>
>
> -Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC 
>  morej at alliancetechnologies.net 
>  515-245-7701
>
>   
>>>> "Nathan C. Smith" <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> 01/11/08 2:39 PM >>>
>>>>         
> We have been having battery issues with our 1 year-old Lenovo T60s.  
>
> A bad batch of batteries. 
>
> -Nate
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: neal daringer [mailto:admin at c0wzftp.com] 
>> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 2:28 PM
>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] bios fubar?
>>
>> ok. it just resurected itself. (shucks i needed a doorstop). i tried 
>> starting it up w/o the battery in it and voila it works now. 
>> wtf is that 
>> crap???? btw its a  Dell Latitude CPi  (Pentium II 364Mhz :-D, 128MB 
>> ram).. thank god it works again. now i need to get DOOM3 on this baby 
>> and go to town!!
>>
>> on another note, have you ever heard of a case like this?? where the 
>> battery is just so jacked up that the only way to run a 
>> laptop is to not 
>> use the battery??
>>
>>
>>  jrnosee at gmail.com wrote:
>>     
>>> Do you get a cursor on the screen at all?  If you're 
>>>       
>> willing to share, 
>>     
>>> what's the make/model.  Some systems I've seen retain a 
>>>       
>> basic set of 
>>     
>>> functionality for video, keyboard, and floppy so a bios can 
>>>       
>> be flashed 
>>     
>>> if the current one is damaged.  Granted...that was a desktop board.
>>>
>>> On Jan 11, 2008 2:02 PM, neal daringer <admin at c0wzftp.com 
>>> <mailto:admin at c0wzftp.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     i recently was updating the bios on an old laptop, it 
>>>       
>> showed that it
>>     
>>>     finished. then it said, press enter to reboot. i 
>>>       
>> pressed enter. then
>>     
>>>     nothing. it will turn on, but i does not show anything 
>>>       
>> nor act like it
>>     
>>>     is doing anything worthwhile. any ideas on what i can 
>>>       
>> do or is it
>>     
>>>     now a
>>>     nice big paperweight/doorstop/booster seat/pretend
>>>     computer/etc/etc/etc????
>>>
>>>     kinda pisses me off too because i got the bios update from the
>>>     manufacters website. fyi its wayyyyyyyyyyy out of warranty.
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