Battery not recognized

[Guest]

When I switch to battery operation, XP does not recognize the battery: the
PC works as if running under mains power. The 'plug' symbol in the task
bar is NOT replaced by the 'battery' symbol, and an external battery
monitoring program like BatteryMateXP reports 'no battery'. I have an idea a
necessary service may be missing - what what service could that be?

G Henry

 

[DatabaseBen]

some programs become incompatible
when Microsoft discovers holes in the
operating system and were used covertly
by some programs.

the best way to simply get all
the "appropriate" windows files
back in their functional state is to
either do a "repair installation" and or
run "sfc"

both are described in detail at Microsoft.com
and I'm certain that one of the above will
fix you right up..

 

[Guest]

Are you talking about a backup battery, i.e. a UPS with a battery.

I got an APC UPS backup system that comes with a special USB cable, or a
special serial cable with the earlier models, and I got to install software
that comes with it, between the UPS anf the PC, so it'll work properly.

The software, and cables all have to be installed properly. On my newer
machine with Powerchute, and cabling hooked up properly, I got the monitor
showing up in the task bar, plus the power options tabs were modified.

With this, the software will shut down the machine with a prolonged outage.

On another older machine, XP machine, with the special serial cable, it does
not work. I test it from time to time turning the power off to the UPS, it
beeps, and the PC keeps going. But I might have aproblem with a prolonged
outage if I'm nt home.

 

[Guest]

When I bought my Tripplite UPS, I didn't get software with it, I had to visit
their site and download the UPS panel software, I think that's what you need
to do.

 

[Guest]

No UPS - just the standard notebook (tablet) battery.

And battery usage was no problem until 2 weeks ago (no, as far as I remember
I did NOT install a new program at that time).