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Laptop Battery not charging within windows
Friend of mine wanted his laptop re-formatted (Acer TravelMate 2700). One of the reasons was that his battery would not charge within windows. Only when it is off. After re-installing XP I discover that the battery is still not charging within windows. Again, still charges while its off however. It's a P4 laptop (so no power saving centrino HW there). Checked the manuf. files for any power management tool but nothing (which I would suspect as its a P4 system and wouldn't really have any advanced power saving functionality).
So anything i've possibly missed as far as battery setup is concerned?? Its a fairly old laptop (probably on its 4th or 5th year), so its pretty well out of its warranty period. I just want to determine if the battery charging HW is shot or if its just a simple configuration issue. TIA
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07-24-2007, 04:03 AM
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Try to charge in the BIOS. It might be having problems charging when the laptop is on. Windows cant cause charging problems especially you've mentioned that you already reformatted and reinstalled the OS.
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07-24-2007, 08:32 AM
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Did it charge before, at one point, in Windows? Does it say the battery is charging, but just not going anywhere?
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07-24-2007, 10:44 PM
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It used to work fine like a regular laptop. it would charge despite whether it was on or off. Now when it is on, the battery charging light will not turn off. only when it is on, which leads me to believe that either theres a misconfiguration in the BIOS somehow, or the actual circuitry is damaged.
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07-31-2007, 07:37 PM
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well ive checked the BIOS, no settings which pertain to battery recharge modes. So I guess theres a low level hardware issue at work here?
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