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Plugged In, Not Charging Battery
I have HP NW8000 laptop running Vista Ultimate. I installed SP1 a few days
ago. After the upgrade, the battery is not charging anymore. Right now it is completely drained out and it says 0% available plugged in, not charging. I uninstalled the Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery drivers (there were two) from the Device Manager and install them again with scan for hardware changes. I tried unplugging and plugging the battery back but nothing helps. The can't get the battery to charge. What gives? |
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Plugged In, Not Charging Battery
Ted wrote:
I have HP NW8000 laptop running Vista Ultimate. I installed SP1 a few days ago. After the upgrade, the battery is not charging anymore. Right now it is completely drained out and it says 0% available plugged in, not charging. I uninstalled the Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery drivers (there were two) from the Device Manager and install them again with scan for hardware changes. I tried unplugging and plugging the battery back but nothing helps. The can't get the battery to charge. What gives? Contact HP tech support. They may have new drivers and/or a workaround. This is very similar to what happened with XP SP2. HP had about 8 different patches you needed to install before applying SP2. Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com Don't Panic! |
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Plugged In, Not Charging Battery
Thank you. Unfortunately, HP doesn't support Vista with NW8000. It looks
like they drew a line to support only 2-year old and newer laptops with Vista. So, nothing can be done on the MS front except downgrading to XP? Like undoing what SP2 did to the battery driver? "Malke" wrote in message ... Ted wrote: I have HP NW8000 laptop running Vista Ultimate. I installed SP1 a few days ago. After the upgrade, the battery is not charging anymore. Right now it is completely drained out and it says 0% available plugged in, not charging. I uninstalled the Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery drivers (there were two) from the Device Manager and install them again with scan for hardware changes. I tried unplugging and plugging the battery back but nothing helps. The can't get the battery to charge. What gives? Contact HP tech support. They may have new drivers and/or a workaround. This is very similar to what happened with XP SP2. HP had about 8 different patches you needed to install before applying SP2. Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com Don't Panic! |
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Plugged In, Not Charging Battery
Ted wrote:
Thank you. Unfortunately, HP doesn't support Vista with NW8000. It looks like they drew a line to support only 2-year old and newer laptops with Vista. So, nothing can be done on the MS front except downgrading to XP? Like undoing what SP2 did to the battery driver? All operating systems need drivers for the hardware inside the computer. Drivers are written by either the hardware mftr. OR by talented programmers who want to use certain hardware with a particular operating system (like Linux, for ex.). Most laptop mftrs. use proprietary hardware in their machines which is why the drivers need to come from them instead of from (for ex.) Nvidia or ATI. This is why the first step in considering whether to install a particular operating system on proprietary hardware is determining whether there are drivers. If not, you don't run that operating system on that hardware. This has nothing to do with Microsoft. You chose to install Vista on hardware where it wasn't supported. If you were fortunate enough for this to have worked before Service Pack 1, then uninstall Service Pack 1. Or put XP back on the laptop. Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com Don't Panic! |
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Plugged In, Not Charging Battery
This has nothing to do with Microsoft.
Really? The fact that HP has decided to stop supporting this model with Vista has nothing to do the issue at hand. Why wouldn't the Upgrade Advisor catch the incompatible hardware? I admire your strategy to transfer the ball to the manufacturer but this is not how I see the situation. There is a thing called backward compatibility. Something was working before, got busted in SP1, and it has nothing to do with Microsoft? Poor OEMs, they are caught in chasing a moving target each time Microsoft ships a service pack. And, of course, it's all their fault if something doesn't work. Shame! "Malke" wrote in message ... Ted wrote: Thank you. Unfortunately, HP doesn't support Vista with NW8000. It looks like they drew a line to support only 2-year old and newer laptops with Vista. So, nothing can be done on the MS front except downgrading to XP? Like undoing what SP2 did to the battery driver? All operating systems need drivers for the hardware inside the computer. Drivers are written by either the hardware mftr. OR by talented programmers who want to use certain hardware with a particular operating system (like Linux, for ex.). Most laptop mftrs. use proprietary hardware in their machines which is why the drivers need to come from them instead of from (for ex.) Nvidia or ATI. This is why the first step in considering whether to install a particular operating system on proprietary hardware is determining whether there are drivers. If not, you don't run that operating system on that hardware. This has nothing to do with Microsoft. You chose to install Vista on hardware where it wasn't supported. If you were fortunate enough for this to have worked before Service Pack 1, then uninstall Service Pack 1. Or put XP back on the laptop. Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com Don't Panic! |
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Plugged In, Not Charging Battery
Nobody's caught chasing a moving target. HP is a major MS partner and has
full information about coming changes to the operating system long ahead of time. HP engineers and MS engineers work together and each receives continuing feedback from the other. HP has made a business decision about supporting your model, that's all. "Ted" wrote in message ... This has nothing to do with Microsoft. Really? The fact that HP has decided to stop supporting this model with Vista has nothing to do the issue at hand. Why wouldn't the Upgrade Advisor catch the incompatible hardware? I admire your strategy to transfer the ball to the manufacturer but this is not how I see the situation. There is a thing called backward compatibility. Something was working before, got busted in SP1, and it has nothing to do with Microsoft? Poor OEMs, they are caught in chasing a moving target each time Microsoft ships a service pack. And, of course, it's all their fault if something doesn't work. Shame! "Malke" wrote in message ... Ted wrote: Thank you. Unfortunately, HP doesn't support Vista with NW8000. It looks like they drew a line to support only 2-year old and newer laptops with Vista. So, nothing can be done on the MS front except downgrading to XP? Like undoing what SP2 did to the battery driver? All operating systems need drivers for the hardware inside the computer. Drivers are written by either the hardware mftr. OR by talented programmers who want to use certain hardware with a particular operating system (like Linux, for ex.). Most laptop mftrs. use proprietary hardware in their machines which is why the drivers need to come from them instead of from (for ex.) Nvidia or ATI. This is why the first step in considering whether to install a particular operating system on proprietary hardware is determining whether there are drivers. If not, you don't run that operating system on that hardware. This has nothing to do with Microsoft. You chose to install Vista on hardware where it wasn't supported. If you were fortunate enough for this to have worked before Service Pack 1, then uninstall Service Pack 1. Or put XP back on the laptop. Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com Don't Panic! |
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Plugged In, Not Charging Battery
Ted wrote:
This has nothing to do with Microsoft. Really? The fact that HP has decided to stop supporting this model with Vista has nothing to do the issue at hand. Why wouldn't the Upgrade Advisor catch the incompatible hardware? I admire your strategy to transfer the ball to the manufacturer but this is not how I see the situation. There is a thing called backward compatibility. Something was working before, got busted in SP1, and it has nothing to do with Microsoft? Poor OEMs, they are caught in chasing a moving target each time Microsoft ships a service pack. And, of course, it's all their fault if something doesn't work. Shame! What strategy? I don't even use Windows and I honestly don't care whether you do either. Oh, and I know to check for drivers before I decide to install an operating system on a computer. Backward compatibility? You think you're guaranteed backward compatibility? For how long? As long as you want it? This is not the way the real world works. No, the bottom line is you chose to install an operating system on hardware that doesn't support it and for which HP isn't providing drivers. The Upgrade Advisor is simply an advisor and isn't always right. The burden of making sure that there are drivers for hardware falls on you if you choose to put a different operating system on a machine that came with a preinstalled OS. It always amuses me when I read a screed like yours - this basic misunderstanding of how computers, hardware, drivers, and operating systems really work is due to Windows users being so accustomed to getting their OS's and supported drivers preinstalled. EOT for me because there really is no point in engaging further on this. Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com Don't Panic! |
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Plugged In, Not Charging Battery
I have noticed a lot of messaged posted last year on this subject, but no solutions. I purchased 2 HP 6735s lap tops about 3 weeks ago. They both devolped the same problem with the battery, plugged in not charging within a short space of time. HP said they must be faulty and send them back. We bought them from Ebuyer.com and they were very helpful and did an exchange and we got 2 new ones. The new one has now got the same fault. Not all the time and not every time it is unplugged. But twice in a week it has said plugged in not charging. The solutiuon seems to be to unplug it and re boot it then plug in again. This seems to solve it but it re occurs. The lap top can't be faulty again. There must be a fix for this as so many other people have had this problem. Please help. -- u4su ------------------------------------------------------------------------ u4su's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/u4su.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-har...ces/922071.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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Plugged In, Not Charging Battery
On my HP laptop once the battery is fully charged the charging will stop so
as not to damage the battery. "u4su" wrote in message ... I have noticed a lot of messaged posted last year on this subject, but no solutions. I purchased 2 HP 6735s lap tops about 3 weeks ago. They both devolped the same problem with the battery, plugged in not charging within a short space of time. HP said they must be faulty and send them back. We bought them from Ebuyer.com and they were very helpful and did an exchange and we got 2 new ones. The new one has now got the same fault. Not all the time and not every time it is unplugged. But twice in a week it has said plugged in not charging. The solutiuon seems to be to unplug it and re boot it then plug in again. This seems to solve it but it re occurs. The lap top can't be faulty again. There must be a fix for this as so many other people have had this problem. Please help. -- u4su ------------------------------------------------------------------------ u4su's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/u4su.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-har...ces/922071.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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Plugged In, Not Charging Battery
"Curious" wrote: On my HP laptop once the battery is fully charged the charging will stop so as not to damage the battery. "u4su" wrote in message ... I have noticed a lot of messaged posted last year on this subject, but no solutions. I purchased 2 HP 6735s lap tops about 3 weeks ago. They both devolped the same problem with the battery, plugged in not charging within a short space of time. HP said they must be faulty and send them back. We bought them from Ebuyer.com and they were very helpful and did an exchange and we got 2 new ones. The new one has now got the same fault. Not all the time and not every time it is unplugged. But twice in a week it has said plugged in not charging. The solutiuon seems to be to unplug it and re boot it then plug in again. This seems to solve it but it re occurs. The lap top can't be faulty again. There must be a fix for this as so many other people have had this problem. Please help. -- u4su ------------------------------------------------------------------------ u4su's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/u4su.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-har...ces/922071.htm http://forums.techarena.in I had same problem.here is the fix. right click power icon open power options open show additional plans chose calibrate remove power cable allow battery to drain till laptop shuts down reconnect power start up laptop open power options again and reset to original power plan. good luck. |