Genuine Lenovo battery - not

I just purchased a battery for my X200S from notebook-laptop-accessories co uk, advertised as a 'genuine Lenovo' item (there's even a picture of a Lenovo-branded battery on the page). When it arrived, it was just an aftermarket battery as you can find on eBay for less than half the price. Thankfully due to a PayPal glitch my payment didn't go through, so I'm not out of pocket (they're welcome to pay me the postal costs to return it!), but I thought other users might appreciate the warning.

thanks for the feedback.
Regards,
Jin Li
May this year, be the year of 'DO'!
I am a volunteer, and not a paid staff of Lenovo or Microsoft

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Gkinghrn wrote:
..anyone any idea how to disable this dumb warning?
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Gkinghrn wrote:
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if your battery does go boom then the cost savings won't seem so great. almost every battery explosion i've seen (all of which were non-genuine batteries) completely destroyed the notebook.
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Re: "Not a genuine Lenovo battery" - how turn off warning?

remove the thinkvantage power manager.
Regards,
Jin Li
May this year, be the year of 'DO'!
I am a volunteer, and not a paid staff of Lenovo or Microsoft

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Regards,
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May this year, be the year of 'DO'!
I am a volunteer, and not a paid staff of Lenovo or Microsoft

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