I thought I had a 600. It's a t22 instead. Battery probably won't work. I think the one I have has a dead bat as well. It plugs in with a little socket. Could probably run power line in and feed it from an external AAA.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:39 AM, 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;">
Hmm. The 600x has a CMOS battery as well as a main battery. The<br>
little ones seem to be available on EBay for, like, a buck. The<br>
li-Ion main batteries are more like $35. I checked at Batteries Plus<br>
on Lawrenceville Hwy and they wanted $95 for the main. That's a little<br>
steep I'm thinkin', although your story about EBay is not encouraging.<br>
There are other places around the interwebs who claim they'll sell<br>
me a new battery at about that price though. I'm wondering if I can<br>
somehow haX04 the software or the hardware to fool it about the<br>
battery. Shoot, if I brick the machine I ain't really lost much.<br>
<br>
Or, if someone in town has a working, full battery that I can *borrow*<br>
for, like, 30 minutes, I could pay in Homebrew or dinner out...<br>
<br>
-- CHS<br>
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On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> thinkpads are really picky about having a working cmos battery. Replacing<br>
> 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.<br>
> I've not had any good luck getting a "new" battery from ebay.<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Charles Shapiro <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> 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>
>> <<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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