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re: Battery icon always shows "on ac power"
Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 11:07 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by bob wells
(1312 messages posted)
Have you tried Pulling the Battery, unplugging the A/C and hitting the Power Switch
a few times, leave it sit un-powered for a while.
Most Likely Power Management in Device Manager. Check PM in Bios. Settings in PM
as well.
BW
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On Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 7:32 am, MartinM wrote:
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>So I have nearly finished recovery of a Dell laptop from a trojan attack.
>
>The only remaining item I am aware of is that the power icon in the system tray
always
>says "on ac power" regardless of whether ac is connected or not. It iused to show
>a battery when on battery power, now it always shows the power lead - and doesn't
>report the state of the battery.
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>I've tried everything I can find on Google (not a lot !), and there's nothing obviously
>wrong in Device Manager. I would delete the appropriate device or driver and let
>XP reinstall - but cannot identify which one it is :-(
>
>Any clues for me ?
>
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