Re: TP 701 battery gauge

[Michael Cummings <michael@saturn.darcars.net>]

On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Raymond Arritt wrote:

> The battery gauge on my Thinkpad 701C always reads 0 (zero) percent
> regardless of how much the battery is really charged up.  IBM Support
> says this is because I have a NiMH battery and the BIOS only knows
> about NiCads.  I'm a bit skeptical, because it always reads zero on
> the old NiCad also -- Support's explanation was "you have an old
> NiCad battery that's probably dead."

Well I have 2 NiMH batteries for my 701 and both of then show just 
fine on the gauge.