Laptop battery not recgnised?

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  winactive Posts: 2,705

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  16/12/08 - 17:18 #2

  thickinthehead wrote: »

  Hi all,
  
  My Dell Vostro 1000 laptop comes up with a message in DOS when it is starting up to say that the battery is not recognised and will not charge. Replace it with a dell battery (I'm paraphrasing). The strange thing is, it charges/discharges okay so I'm a little puzzled... At the moment, all I need to do is hit the spacebar and it starts up okay. However, I'm a bit worried that the probem may progress to something expensive!! :eek:
  
  Any ideas??

  
  Dell batteries can be re-calibrated in the BIOS. I'd try that first.
  
  F2 into setup and then look for the battery section. If it's there, you'll find it intuitive.

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  Loobster Posts: 11,680

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  16/12/08 - 19:54 #3

  My Inspiron 1501 did the same thing - a BIOS update cured it. In fact, sorting out this erroneous message was the only purpose of the update, as far as I could tell. It turns out the message was nonesense anyway, and the battery was indeed charging properly.
  
  Check on the Dell website for a BIOS update for your machine.

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