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Laptop won't detect my battery

  • 15-09-2006 6:33pm
    #1
    nobodythere
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    My laptop no longer detects that I have a battery. It seems to think that my laptop is always plugged in, no battery shows up in power options. Also, The standby button is disabled and when I turn off the laptop it goes to the "It is now safe to turn off your computer" (something I've never seen on XP!).

    I tried uninstalling and reinstalling drivers, no luck, no battery shows up in device manager (quite certain it did before). When this started happening, I was installing VMWare Server on XP home which I was hacking at to get working (as it requires IIS and IIS ain't sposed to install on XP home). During the same boot I was cleaning up loads of files that were in C:\, and I must have deleted some important files accidentally.

    AFAIR, when I rebooted it gave me two errors, one about missing boot.ini and something about HAL (Hardware Access List). Realising that I had probably deleted important files, I went into XP repair console and ran bootcfg which rebuilt boot.ini. XP booted up then, but that's when the battery stopped being detected.

    It is still detected in the BIOS (i.e. I can check how much it is charged).


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  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    What is the make/model of the laptop? Is the any battery recalibration feature that you could try in the BIOS and see if it makes any difference?


  • #3
    nobodythere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,349 ✭✭✭nobodythere


    It's a Dell Inspiron 630m. I haven't tried that recalibration yoke you think of, but I think it's purely an operating system issue (hence the windows forum) because I have fedora installed and it has no problems with the battery


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