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No recognizable battery?

Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:01 am
by wonnder
Ok,

I really don't know much about anything let alone this, but I learn. I just cleared my machine and reloaded ME from scratch. Everything is fine, except that my notebook doesn't show any battery at all?
If I recall I did have a similar problem before with 2000 on a desktop and bios update fixed that.

So, does anyone think that would solve this?

How DO you get a bios update anyway? I had a boyfriend that fixed the 2000 machine but I'd rather not have to run to someone else to fix everything in my life!

Toshiba Tecra 8000
WinME

Re: No recognizable battery?

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:18 pm
by NickS
wonnder wrote:Ok,

I really don't know much about anything let alone this, but I learn. I just cleared my machine and reloaded ME from scratch. Everything is fine, except that my notebook doesn't show any battery at all?
Where do you expect the battery to show? In the system tray?

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:34 pm
by wonnder
It doesn't show in the system tray, the power options or the device manager.

Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:28 am
by NickS
Sounds as though it could be an APM/ACPI problem and if the BIOS is old it may not support one or the other properly. How old is the BIOS?
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From the documentation on the Toshiba website it looks as though it should....