ACER Utilities with Vista

[Marc Nutty]

Hi,

Well, after installing RC1 and it not realising am on a notebook (cannot get
ANY battery options up) - dunno if its because I done a dual boot or missed
an option on the set-up but anyhoo, I wondered if there was an e-power
management or summuts out their for notebooks?

cheers,

(ps. any help on the battery front welcome too!)

 

[Jane C]

Right-click desktop > Personalize > Screensaver > Power Management. Click
the Change Power Settings link. There you can change power plan and fiddle
about a bit

 

[Marc Nutty]

lol, yes I know all that, what I think it is, is that my laptop isnt OEM, it
came pre-installed with XP from ACER, therefore prob needing their utilities
to get the battery power schemes.

 

[Beck]

lol, yes I know all that, what I think it is, is that my laptop isnt OEM,
it came pre-installed with XP from ACER, therefore prob needing their
utilities to get the battery power schemes.

What you have on your XP has nowt to do with what you have on Vista, they
run entirely seperate.
I have an Acer laptop and didn't like their preinstalled XP so purchased a
normal oem XP. I still have the battery options in Vista.
You can download the utilities from Acer website but to be honest I doubt it
will work. I tried installing one of them the other day and it failed
saying XP only.
http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/downloads.html

 

[Marc Nutty]

Yes i tryed the website, got the same problem.

So can I ask if you got battery power options etc... where am I going wrong?
lol

cheers,

 

[Beck]

Yes i tryed the website, got the same problem.

So can I ask if you got battery power options etc... where am I going
wrong? lol

Go to search and type Power. Power options should be top of the list. Click
on that and it should take you to the power options for your battery.
If you are connected to mains, try unplugging the battery and plugging it
back in. You should have a little power icon by the clock.

 

[Marc Nutty]

Tryed that and still no success When i un-plug from the mains the screen
brighness dimms a little lol, but thats it!

 

[Beck]

Tryed that and still no success When i un-plug from the mains the
screen brighness dimms a little lol, but thats it!

What do you see when you go into power options?
If you cannot see power options in the start list, you will find it in
hardware and sound within the control panel.

 

[Marc Nutty]

ok,

here's the link: http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/7350/power1yt2.jpg

PS. On my XP installation I un-installed the ACER power management and the
windows power management took over (good good).

 

[Beck]

ok,

here's the link: http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/7350/power1yt2.jpg

PS. On my XP installation I un-installed the ACER power management and the
windows power management took over (good good).

Well I be damned. I am sorry I got it wrong.

 

[Marc Nutty]

lol its ok, however, i think i have the SOLUTION!

After extensive searching on the net I have stumbled accross on MSDN technet
forums some people with the same problem. And we all have the same problem,
in device manager there is NO battery driver installed and also theres an
"unknown device" which is MS ACPI and when tryed to install, Vista doesnt
have the required driver, even in RC1!

Therefore I conclude after alllll this, it is a driver problem lol, thanks
to colin and beck and others for your support!

Nutty

 

[Beck]

lol its ok, however, i think i have the SOLUTION!

After extensive searching on the net I have stumbled accross on MSDN
technet forums some people with the same problem. And we all have the same
problem, in device manager there is NO battery driver installed and also
theres an "unknown device" which is MS ACPI and when tryed to install,
Vista doesnt have the required driver, even in RC1!

Therefore I conclude after alllll this, it is a driver problem lol, thanks
to colin and beck and others for your support!

I don't think that it is a driver problem.
We both have Acer laptops, mine works yours doesn't. If it were a lack of
drivers, then surely I woud have the same problem?
What model of Acer do you have?

 

[Marc Nutty]

I have a travelmate 4000 series WLMi, also the other people I found with the
same problem one had the same series as me, and another a toshiba laptop.

I did try and installing a MS smart battery subsystem driver and the power
schemes all changed to battery ones etc... which worked, but vista still
couldnt recognise the battery, so it was the wrong driver.

Also note that it is a driver prob because there is no battery in the device
manager lol.

thanks again,