[ale] Wall wort for IBM 600x?

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Tue Mar 9 09:57:10 EST 2010


I thought I had a 600. It's a t22 instead. Battery probably won't work. I
think the one I have has a dead bat as well. It plugs in with a little
socket. Could probably run power line in and feed it from an external AAA.

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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