[ale] Wall wort for IBM 600x?

[Jim Kinney]

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.

Some laptop batteries can be disassembled and rebuilt by batteries plus.
I've not had any good luck getting a "new" battery from ebay.

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>wrote:

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