thinkpads are really picky about having a working cmos battery. Replacing them is easy but costs about $20+. It's a "module" and not just a battery.<br><br>Some laptop batteries can be disassembled and rebuilt by batteries plus. I've not had any good luck getting a "new" battery from ebay. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Charles Shapiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hah! Boots and Runs fine, memtestx86 reports clean. Boots Lose 2000 to<br>
a passwordless admin user. The CMOS battery appears either shot or not<br>
charged though, since I have to set the clock before it'll start.<br>
<br>
I found an update for the BIOS but alas the updater seems to require a<br>
functional main battery. acpi reports that the battery is not charging<br>
at all. A new one is, like, $35 on ebay. Looks like this machine'll<br>
run xubuntu just fine though -- minimum requirements are 192 mb and 2<br>
gb of disk space, this thing has 300+ mb of memory and a 20g hard<br>
drive installed.<br>
<br>
It seems to have a pcmcia slot, but the linux rescue CD isn't finding<br>
drivers for my Lenovo cardbus 11a/b/g adapter. It's got a built-in<br>
modem but that appears to be about it. Onboard sound seems to work<br>
ok. It's even got a functional USB port or two.<br>
<br>
Another fun toy. Wonder what I can do with it. Maybe it's the world's<br>
biggest, ugliest mp3 player.<br>
<br>
-- CHS<br>
<br>
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Charles Shapiro<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Oops, wait, I have an R51 and it looks like the power supply is<br>
> compatible. Now I know that the 600x boots ok to an old Windows 2000<br>
> installation. I'm running memtest86 on it even as I speak.<br>
><br>
> -- CHS<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Charles Shapiro<br>
> <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Hey, anyone have a power supply for an IBM Thinkpad 600x laptop (circa<br>
>> 2000 I think)? I scored one recently without power supply. The<br>
>> supplies are available on EBay for around $10, but I wanted to verify<br>
>> that the box works before shelling out the dough. This is a P3 with<br>
>> (allegedly) 327 mb of RAM. I was gonna put Puppy Linux on it if it<br>
>> runs. The machine claims to want 16 V at 3 A through a round<br>
>> negative-outsied plug, FWIW. The battery, of course, is shot.<br>
>><br>
>> -- CHS<br>
>><br>
><br>
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