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You know what, you are not the only one who has this problem. I have a 701C with 24MB of memory. I have tried to swap the battery in suspend mode and the only time that it will stay alive is when I am in clean boot DOS. I don't remember if OS/2 does it correctly but I know that Win31 and Win95 doesn't do it. I have tried it with the SOMM memory module removed and still doesn't work. I called the HelpCenter a couple of times and they can't give me an explanation as to why it's doing this (a couple of times, they even denied that the 701 can do hot battery swap until I referred them to the user's manual). As a last resort, I ordered a new (it's on backorder) standby battery and hope that it will solve the problem. From reading the Technical Service Manuals, I think the 701s may come equipped with the wrong type of standby battery. Every other ThinkPad IBM makes uses a 3 volt or higher standard battery but the 701 comes with a 1.2 volt NiMh standby battery(that's what mine comes with). Unless the 701's got a voltage step-up circuit, I don't know if it's enough voltage to keep the memory alive when the main battery is removed. This may be the cause. But I can't be sure without a schematic or taking my ThinkPad apart to do some tests. We will see if the new standby battery works when it arrives. Eddy -----Original Message----- From: Greg Alvandian [SMTP:slppj@cc.usu.edu] Sent: Saturday, April 12, 1997 4:31 PM To: ThinkPad Mailing list Subject: Non-disruptive swap on 701cs I have had a problem with not being able to reliably perform a non-disruptive battery swap on my 701cs since I bought it almost exactly one year ago. This problem has resisted four attempts to Easyserv to fix and still it persisted. I just recently sent it to customer relations so, get this, they could send it to easyserv. Any how I haven't gotten it back yet but I got a message on my answering machine from an IBM tech who says it's not a hardware problem but instead due to Win95 APM. He said that disabling APM has solved it. Well I'm extremely sceptical about this as this problem has persisted since I first bought the machine and they haven't done anything different to it this fifth time. Coupled with the fact that I've only recently upgraded to Win 95 and I've had the same problem consistenly in DOS, OS/2 Warp, and win3.1. So it sounds like IBM is trying to feed me a line so it relieves them of the burden. Not to mention the fact that win95 is supposedly "ThinkPad Proven." I would like to know if anyone else has had any problems performing a non-disruptive battery swap (putting the computer into suspend and then swapping out the battery and merely opening the lid to unsuspend). More importantly I'd like to know if anyone running Win95 with APM enabled, has had any problems like this, or rather if they have had no problems doing this. -Greg A.