re: Battery icon always shows "on ac power" Sunday, November 9, 2008 at 3:09 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Anthony (1 messages posted) I'm having the same problem as the rest of you with my Dell Inspiron e1405 laptop. The taskbard icon always shows "On AC power" even when unplugged. And when I go to Power Options my battery is listed as "Not Present", yet the computer keeps running when unplugged from AC; so the battery must be working. To add further, the battery will never enter a state of fast charge (constant green light), but is in a perpetual state of trickle charge (flashes green every 8 seconds) reguardless of the laptop being on or off. My Microsoft Composite Battery driver is present in device manager, and I could not delete it, but I tried Martin's process anyways. Deleted the Microsoft AC Adapter and Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery drivers and rebooted. This did not fix it. So I went for the dOGHAIR fix, installed it, rebooted, but it did not work either. Any further help would be greatly appreciated. Written in response to: re: Battery icon always shows "on ac power" (carrie: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 1:06 pm) Responses to this message: re: Battery icon always shows "on ac power" (MartinM: Sunday, November 9, 2008 at 4:05 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Battery icon always shows "on ac power" (MartinM: Sat, Jul 12, 2008, 7:32 am) re: Battery icon always shows "on ac power" (Ari: Sat, Jul 12, 2008, 8:49 am) re: Battery icon always shows "on ac power" (MartinM: Sat, Jul 12, 2008, 9:42 am) re: Battery icon always shows "on ac power" (Ari: Sat, Jul 12, 2008, 9:53 am) re: Battery icon always shows "on ac power" (MartinM: Sat, Jul 12, 2008, 2:39 pm) re: Battery icon always shows "on ac power" - fixed (MartinM: Sat, Jul 12, 2008, 3:20 pm) re: Battery icon always shows "on ac power" (bob wells: Sat, Jul 12, 2008, 11:07 am) re: Battery icon always shows "on ac power" (MartinM: Sat, Jul 12, 2008, 3:28 pm) re: Battery icon always shows "on ac power" (bob wells: Sat, Jul 12, 2008, 4:42 pm) re: Battery icon always shows "on ac power" (MartinM: Sat, Jul 12, 2008, 11:44 pm) re: Battery icon always shows "on ac power" (bob wells: Sun, Jul 13, 2008, 1:29 am) re: Battery icon always shows "on ac power" (carrie: Wed, Oct 1, 2008, 9:18 am) re: Battery icon always shows "on ac power" (carrie: Wed, Oct 1, 2008, 1:06 pm) re: Battery icon always shows "on ac power" (Anthony: Sun, Nov 9, 2008, 3:09 pm) re: Battery icon always shows "on ac power" (MartinM: Sun, Nov 9, 2008, 4:05 pm) re: Battery icon always shows "on ac power" (binet: Sat, Nov 15, 2008, 12:11 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum