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I have 2 NiMh and 1NiCd and the gauge works fine with all of them. My NiCd is acting up though, I lose power when it's only 50% drained (most of the time, I don't even have time to do a proper shutdown before it goes into suspend mode). If you just flashed your BIOS, try to do it again. I once had a problem where the computer wouldn't count the memory when I turn it on after flashing the BIOS and flashing the BIOS over again cleared the problem. If that doesn't work, I would have IBM check the computer. Eddy Lin -----Original Message----- From: Raymond Arritt [SMTP:rwarritt@iastate.edu] Sent: Monday, April 07, 1997 2:21 PM To: thinkpad@cs.utk.edu Subject: TP 701 battery gauge 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.