IBM Thinkpad 390/390E/390X                                      June 14, 2000
Ni-MH Battery Re-conditioning Tool

Version 1.00
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What This Diskette Does
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This program is the battery re-conditioning program.
If you feel the battery life of your system is abnormally short,
please try to refresh the battery using this utility diskette.
This will optimize the battery performance of your system.  
   
>>> Important notice <<<

Battery power is generated by chemical reactions in the battery pack.
The chemical reactions are degraded by long use of the battery or 
repeated charge and discharge activity.  The battery pack may not 
be recovered to its initial performance at the time of purchase, 
even if you run this refresh program.  


This uitlity supports these ThinkPad computers only
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   - ThinkPad 390/390E/390X with Ni-MH battery pack 

     Parts Number of supported battery pack is 
	IBM FRU 02K6521
	IBM FRU 02K6537
 
     See the barcode label attached to your battery pack for IBM FRU Parts Number. 




Released Version
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Version 1.00     Initial release


Summary of Change
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 Key: <n.nn>  Diskette Version (for example, 1.00 means Version 1.00)
      (New)   New Function or Enhancement
      (Fix)   Correction to existing function

<1.00>
 - (New) Support for ThinkPad 390/390E/390X with Ni-MH battery pack


Installation
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  Plesae use the following procedure;
  
          1. Turn off the system.
          2. Insert the floppy disk into the drive
          3. Plug in the AC adapter and Turn on the system.
             The system boots to DOS.
          4. When the message 'Please unplug the AC Adapter !' is displayed
             at the bottom of screen, unplug the AC adapter from the system,
          5. Keep operating the system with battery power until the system shuts
             down.
             <Do not remove diskette from the drive>
          6. Wait for 1 hour to cool down the battery, then plug in the AC
             adapter and turn on the system.
          7. System boots to DOS from diskette.
             When the message 'Pressing 'Y' starts program. Pressing 'N'
             exits to initial state' is displayed, press 'Y' to start program.
          8. Program runs and does conditioning the battery
          9. Turn off the system and keep charging the battery until the battery
             status lamp becomes green
         10. Remove the diskette from the drive

For best results, these steps should be repeated three times.

Even if you press 'Y' at procedure #7, the utility program will not do anything
to the battery if any of the conditions below are met.  If one of the conditions
are met the appropriate message is displayed.

     - Your system is not a ThinkPad 390 series
     - The battery in your system is not a Ni-MH battery
     - The battery is already in good condition and does not need an update

Is such cases, just charge the battery until the battery status lamp becomes
green.


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