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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." Does this ring a bell with anyone? The problem *may* have cropped up after flashing the BIOS to version 3O, but I don't recall the sequence of events closely enough to say for sure. Alternately, are there any third-party utilities that will give a reliable charge indication? We use this machine for field work so we really need to know whether the battery is good -- we won't always be near AC power if the battery is flat. Thanks for any help.