Battery Status

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Hi, I'm running my HP Laptop with Windows XP with 256ram and 30gb, I've tried ACPI but my system didn't worked well, so I tried with "Standard PC" configuration and everything runs in order but the APM options make my computer crash, so I'd dissabled but now I can't see my battery status, so my question is

Anyone knows how to check your battery status without APM or ACPI options enabled

 

[Jim Macklin]

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| Hi, I'm running my HP Laptop with Windows XP with 256ram
and 30gb, I've tried ACPI but my system didn't worked well,
so I tried with "Standard PC" configuration and everything
runs in order but the APM options make my computer crash, so
I'd dissabled but now I can't see my battery status, so my
question is:
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| Anyone knows how to check your battery status without APM
or ACPI options enabled?
|

 

[R. McCarty]

ACPI didn't work very well ? For a recent notebook it should
work very well. How old is this notebook ? Since it's an HP,
it probably runs badly because of all the junk they load on them.

With all the peripherals on a notebook, running a Standard HAL
is going to be an issue with IRQ mappings.

You probably need a BIOS firmware flash and to correctly set
the BIOS options. Just recently I had someone request help on
a brand new HP that was very fragmented and I forget how many
Startups and Watchdogs ran. From power on to useable desktop
took well over 2.5 minutes.