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    another m17x battery thread? technically yes but no.

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by nkarno, Dec 14, 2013.

  1. nkarno

    nkarno Notebook Guru

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    slowly this m17x is coming to life! Funny enough- in the end I have replaced just about everything from the initial machine I bought.
    To date I have replaced the keyboard, screen, video card(s), case (black -> red), hard drive, added a second hard drive, battery*. I have two issues remaining: one is a speaker LED that does not light up as bright as the other side. Not sure how the original owner managed to mess that up-

    The other is battery related. When the system boots I always get the warning: the battery has experienced permanent failure. f1 to continue accompanied by two loud system beeps.
    I bought a replacement battery on ebay but that did not solve the issue. There is a chance, of course, that battery was being sold on ebay because it caused this problem. My current battery holds a charge and lasts a while when the adapter is unplugged but I do not know how long because I never ran it out. The main point is that the pc can boot on the battery and stay alive if ac is lost so there is some protection about power outages that I wont just crash.

    So to the question. I updated the BIOS to the latest version and have power warnings turned off in the BIOS settings but I cannot seem to disable the failure message. Is it possible to perma-ignore this on boot up? Of course there is no warning if I boot with no battery in at all but that kills the power safety net.
     
    nkarno, Dec 14, 2013
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  2. Hackintoshihope

    Hackintoshihope AlienMeetsApple

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    The motherboard could actually be bad giving you a false warning? Do both batteries give this error? The original and replacement! One last thing the message cannot be disabled because it is hardcoded into the bios.
     
    Hackintoshihope, Dec 14, 2013
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  3. nkarno

    nkarno Notebook Guru

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    darn

    Yeah both batteries give the warning but both batteries are used so I cannot eliminate them as the possible source 100%
     
    nkarno, Dec 14, 2013
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  4. Hackintoshihope

    Hackintoshihope AlienMeetsApple

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    Gotcha, problem is, until you do we will have a hard time of knowing if it is either motherboard or battery related.
     
    Hackintoshihope, Dec 15, 2013
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  5. Alienware-L_Porras

    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    You would need another battery, it would be really rare to have it happen to 3 different ones. Do you know anybody who has your same computer and a working battery? It would be easier and cheaper that way.
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Dec 17, 2013
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    I know this is kinda old, but if you haven't resolved that, or for any1 else looking for solution...
    Do a power drain and the message should be gone.
     
    maxslo, Feb 5, 2014
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