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    Disable Battery Charging in BIOS not saved

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by get_peter, Nov 16, 2010.

  1. get_peter

    get_peter Newbie

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    Hi

    I have the previous gen M11x, i.e. not the i-Core/SSD version.

    The BIOS provides an option to disable the charging of the battery when you plug the power cable in. It works fine cause I can check the battery icon in windows which says something like "27% vavilable (plugged in, not charging)".

    The trouble I am getting is that after reboot, the BIOS resets the setting from Disabled to Enabled. Anyone has the same issue?
     
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    Radam Notebook Geek

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    This is the way the feature has been designed I think. There is not way to permanently disable it that I know of.
     
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    get_peter Newbie

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    Is it possible to save the change I mean?
     
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    Radam Notebook Geek

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    When you reboot the bios automatically changes it. So I don't think it is unfortunately... Though you can use btmeter to disable it from in windows. Search the forum to find the link for it.
     
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    Not only after reboot. Say now I am having it disabled and plugged in with the A/C, it is not charging. After I've unplugged it from the A/C, it now runs on the battery. When I plugged it back in to the A/C it starts charging. N.B. the entire process I have not shutdown/reboot/restart the PC.
     
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