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Date: 01/15/1998 02:04 pm (Thursday) From: Grant Hilsenteger To: energy.smtpgw."thinkpad@cs.utk.edu" Subject: Battery power indicator Just a question about the battery power indicator on the desktop. The little battery icon that tells how much battery time is remaining when you move the mouse over it usually has a +/- sign on the battery icon. The 701C that I use decided about a month ago to stop working with battery power although the battery seemed to be fine. After sitting for a month, suddenly the battery power is back online, except that now the power indicator had an icon that is a battery with a question mark in it... the owner (my mom) was quite distressed, but this is normal for her. I had never seen that icon before and thought maybe it was just because the battery was so low that it was not really measureable. Then I thought that I should ask the TP group since there is such a wealth of knowledge here. Has anyone seen that icon? What does it mean? The good news out of this is that where I thought the battery was toast and needed to be replaced, it now seems to be working fine. After I left the battery and the question mark icon to charge overnight, the battery and the power meter were back to normal. Just another adventure in owning a thinkpad, which has been back to EZServ twice and had the top and bottom boards and the floppy replaced already, within a year. Thanks Grant