Not strange. Makers advise recalibrate new battery.

Ok I'll try that now. Just tell me, what could cause such issue? Always quote my messages so I get notified quickly! A laptop computer determines the state of charge by the voltage curve. As the battery discharges, the voltages drops. But the voltage curve changes over time. As a battery ages, the ...

win10 actually makes the advanced controls MORE accessible to users than they previously were. No obscure powershell commands or admin policies buried deep in the control panel that are vague at best. By hacking the registry instead? You gotta be kidding! the only reason any seems to be complaining...

Funny how some people want to construct some kind of epic decision between using Windows 10 and being free.....laughable. Face it, you are not free! No matter if you use Windows 10 or not, this society is not free. Perhaps the country in which you live is not a free country. I live in the United St...

They should have no problem, since Windows 10 doesn´t collect much more than Windows 7. Enterprises can even turn off the telemetry data collection, thats not even harmful to the user by nature.... But it does! http://www.newsweek.com/windows-10-recording-users-every-move-358952 Stay free! Reject W...

These are not infinitesimal probabilities. The EULA is poison.

Stay free! Reject Windows 10.

Recalibrate both.

Yes, you have to leave the machine undisturbed while recalibrating.

laowai wrote: It doesn't say that at all though.

It certainly does. It is a direct quote of Microsoft, from

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/

Click the blue "down arrow" to the right to expand the statement.

Stay free! Reject Windows 10.

Before you trash, try recalibrate in PM menu.

The easiest first thing to do is burn a memtest86 CD: http://www.memtest86.com/ The most common mode of SSD failure is sudden and catastrophic. But I've found it's of little help to theorize. You just have to whack away at it. Memtest is easy, because you don't have to move any parts. Be of note tha...

how can companies even implement windows 10 if it's gonna collect all that data? Legal to be sure. But there is a clear and present danger that with that motherlode of heretofore private information, Microsoft will become the #1 hacker target on the planet. And what hackers want badly enough, they ...

My point was that the EULA hardly matters. For years Microsoft has had the ability to access our computers' files. It could have accessed them back in 2000 even if Windows 2000's EULA didn't explicitly state this possibility. Several years ago, Microsoft handed user emails over to the NSA without u...

I trust the NSA a lot more than Microsoft. My tax dollars support the NSA. The NSA performs activities vital to the safety of our country. I am a citizen of a democracy. Government is not my enemy. But I don't elect Microsoft. Microsoft is interested in making a profit. Given the recent prevalence o...

That's why EULA *does* matter. The EULA associated with W10 gives MS *huge* rights that they shouldn't be entitled to just by the user agreeing to them. Ditto. Ours is a society of law. Law, not custom, goodwill, hypothetical intent or historical behavior, is the ultimate arbiter of our rights. The...

I looked for something like that, and wound up with a Dell zippered pouch, which is about the right size, but has no metal reinforcement.

I bought a different third party battery at http://www.ebay.ca/itm/9-Cell-Laptop-Battery-for-Lenovo-IBM-Thinkpad-T60-T61-T61p-R60-R61-T500-W500-/111591758215? since the other seller doesn't ship to Canada. Even at the same price I would have preferred the battery Hans Gruber bought. "Do not dispose...

edit: Just had a quick look on that ebay auction and it appears there is no manufacturer name on those batteries. I also didn't see the UL Lab logo or RoHS certifications. Even if they work good you might want to take a good look at them. and see if you can figure out where they were manufactured a...

There is not one single case of record of an eBay laptop battery causing an accident. There are cases of other eBay batteries causing problems, but they were not laptop batteries. You can believe what you want, but recall data doesn't cover blackmarket or greymarket batteries. If a manufacturer for...

They are SLC: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCYQFjABahUKEwifoIWex7HHAhUFyT4KHSuWDWk&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.micron.com%2F~%2Fmedia%2Fdocuments%2Fproducts%2Fproduct-flyer%2Fbrief_p300_ssd.pdf&ei=lpTSVZ_9DYWS-wGrrLbIBg&usg=AFQjCNFHiVjeTVgkRBOPEDa9tCLA2MSZ3A&sig2=IY...

I have a T400 and an X61s equipped with older 256GB drives. The size seems right for an OS and some activity related content. 128GB is too much of a squeeze. I'm no great fan of SSDs, because of the write endurance issue. But I've found it's possible to convert an X61s into an approximation of an in...

It is missing the Master Boot Record (MBR).

Try this: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/483/xp_r ... y_console/

Even the worst SATA III SSD will be able to max out the read speed on an SATA II bus. Not the write speed. People do not realize unless you are writing large amounts of data. The write speed is not as important. On paper the read speed of an SSD is important but in real life performance it's not as...

I have older SATA II SSDs in two machines, an X61 and T400. The machines are considerably faster than my other X61 and T400, which use Seagate Momentus 750 hybrid drives. And the machines with Seagate hybrids are significantly faster than they were with plain spinners. IMHO, and in my experience, it...

RealBlackStuff wrote:http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Fultondal ... 1286883921

That is not a laptop compatible drive. The active power consumption is up to 25 watts. See http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/int ... ,3858.html

"Write endurance" is a technical spec, measured in terabytes or petabytes. 1 petabyte = 1000 terabytes. There are three classes of SSDs, consumer, enterprise, and datacenter. But "enterprise" is actually nonsense, as they are no better than "consumer." In fact, Intel's specifications document provid...

7w watts implies a hardware defect, or a bug in reading the power.
I'd use one of these: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Unbranded-Ki ... /202196386

to assess how real the reading is.

Linux, not familiar.

7W for a Smartcard reader sounds erroneous. It would be on fire.

On the task bar, an "up arrow" pops a small panel. One of the icons represents a USB plug. Click. The CD ROM should be there as an ejectable device.

To reinstall the CD ROM, you'll have to either reboot, or physically eject the CDROM ~ 1/2" and reinsert.

Thanks! So far, I have enabled charge thresholds to stop at 80%- where should I set them to start? I choose a point >= 10% different from the stop threshold. So, around 70% Bear in mind there is no mathematical solution to battery life optimization. Everything stated is an opinion or a hunch, excep...

I would not do a full discharge on the battery. I have tried this on a few near dead batteries, and the full discharge just ended up decreasing the remaining charge capacity, or bricking the battery all together. Panasonic batteries seem to be more resistant to complete discharges than sanyo ones b...