unable to adjust low battery alarm below 48%

[Guest]

The low battery alarm and critical battery alarm are stuck on 48%. If I try
to change the percentage it changes back to 48%. I am able to increase the
percentage. There are no power saving features in the BIOS (HP-ZV5240).
Really I attemped to change the low battery alarm percentage with the command
powercfg /batteryalarm low /level 10 and received the warning "level set to
48 this is the minimum level for this system"

 

[Marian Gutu]

By default, a low-battery warning occurs when the battery charge is
approximately 90 percent depleted. Did you checked the HP web site for a
BIOS update?

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[Guest]

thanks for the info
HP had this "- Fixes issue where the system can not recharge the battery to
full capacity when battery capacity is at 0% and the battery has not been
used for a long time. "

unforunately the last time I tried to update the bios; the process was
interupted. This caused the BIOS to become unflashable and the motherboard
had to be replaced (ouch)!

I'll just live without the alarms.
thanks for taking the time to answer.

 

[Marian Gutu]

In general, laptop manufacturers includes a power management utility that
will offer additional features above and beyond what is included in Windows
XP, and may actually disable the Windows XP Power Options dialog box. Check
HP download site.
And take a look on this article: Managing power on a portable computer
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/.../proddocs/en-us/pwrmn_set_alarm.mspx?mfr=true
Regards,
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Marian Gutu

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Be nice, society already sucks!

May the Force be with you!
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[Guest]

This particular BIOS has no power management utility. Therefore nothing to
overide the Windows power management. I fought with HP over the BIOS flash
and was stuck buying a motherboard on Ebay. I'm up and running but it's my
last HP! To compound matters I own stock in HP which will be short lived
when opportunity arises.