have an x60 with an oem think pad battery that won't accept a charge after 8 cycles. i've read online about a windows 7 issue with batteries but couldn't find if there was any solutions for it. anybody have this happen to ?

9/9/2010 7:03:53 PM

Has this occurred with multiple batteries? I would guess faulty hardware before faulty OS

9/9/2010 8:45:01 PM

what's the battery light doing?

Blinking orange probably means you purchased a fake. It probably also means you can pop it out and pop it back in and it'll charge. Just like mine

9/9/2010 9:24:59 PM

blinking orange , keep doing it when i take it off and put it back

9/10/2010 2:40:46 PM

Yeah, gotta watch out for the fakes. If you purchased it recently, why not just return it?

9/10/2010 3:09:58 PM

Use the thinkpad battery utility and see what it pulls from the cell information. The realtime stuff can probably tell you if it's straight up dead or if the little sensor thingy is having trouble communicating throwing an error. When mine blinks OJ I can open it up and see some kind of error code that it can't communicate with the smart battery; so whatever they're using to fake it is 50/50 shot.

Where did you purchase the battery?

9/12/2010 2:28:05 PM