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James.. the switch turns the batery 'cpu' off, so it does not drain it when out of the machine.. James H. E. Maugham wrote: > On 11 May 98 at 21:21, James Mckenzie wrote: > > > Pop the keyboard open and remove the battery. My guess is that it has > > gone the way of a shorted out NiMH battery should go and got very, very hot. > > If this does not fix the problem, call IBM EZ-Serve. You might be lucky > > and the system is under warrenty. > > Much praise upon you kinsman. A combination of removing the battery and pushing > the reset button has restored my baby to her former vigah! > > I'll have to search through the other batteries I have for another functional > one. > > Ahem, the following is an admittedly dumb question, but ignorance will not be > forestalled. Do the switches on IBM batteries actually serve any useful > function? On all of my other laptops they served only as an indicator of > charge/nocharge and weren't actually connected to anything internally. > > Thanks again for all the assistance. > > James > > James H. E. Maugham, V.P. > Share the Technology Computer Recycling Project > http://www.libertynet.org/~share -- Bill Morrow http://thinkpads.com bill@nospam@thinkpads.com