[ale] Wall wort for IBM 600x?

[Charles Shapiro]

Hmm.  The 600x has a CMOS battery as well as a main battery.  The
little ones seem to be available on EBay for, like, a buck.  The
li-Ion main batteries are more like $35.  I checked at Batteries Plus
on Lawrenceville Hwy and they wanted $95 for the main. That's a little
steep I'm thinkin', although your story about EBay is not encouraging.
  There are other places around the interwebs who claim they'll sell
me a new battery at about that price though.  I'm wondering if I can
somehow haX04 the software or the hardware to fool it about the
battery.  Shoot, if I brick the machine I ain't really lost much.

Or, if someone in town has a working, full battery that I can *borrow*
for, like, 30 minutes, I could pay in Homebrew or dinner out...

-- CHS


On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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