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    Asus W3V Battery Meter Disappears?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by teds, Jul 5, 2005.

  1. teds

    teds Newbie

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    Hey guys, anyone else have this problem with the W3V?
    Sometimes when I boot up the power meter isnt in the taskbar.
    This is a huge pain in teh ass cause always want it tehre.
    I even went into power options and checked always show icon in taskbar, doesnt seem to do anything (except it shouls the little plug icon when Im plugged in)
    This is weird, any suggestions?
     
    teds, Jul 5, 2005
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  2. PROPortable

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    Unused icons may be set to hidden... if you physically don't click on that meter often, it'll hide itself.
     
    PROPortable, Jul 5, 2005
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  3. teds

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    Hidden in what sense? I hide inactive icons, but when you click the arrow buttin in the taskbar they're all visible.. this is not.
     
    teds, Jul 5, 2005
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    never happened in mine :(
    always visible.
     
    Muaddib, Jul 5, 2005
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  5. PROPortable

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    Ok, that' a new one to me.... should be there...... actually you could turn it off, so check in the control panel to make sure it's set up to "display on task bar"
     
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  6. teds

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    yeah its set there ok... its weird cause it just doesnt appear on boot sometimes, but it reappears when I plug it in and unplug it... I dont get it, Im assuming its a software thign or something, but I dunno...
     
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    Oh, you can change that setting to..... I think it's in there... you can have it "on the task bar all the time" or "on the task bar only when on battery power" .
     
    PROPortable, Jul 5, 2005
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    hey i had that problem, it was mostly like bluetooth, wireless, and battery meter stuff not showing up. I just reinstalled windows to factory settings. Luckily that happend when i first got my w3v so it was easy.
     
    onetake, Jul 5, 2005
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  9. Valsmere

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    No problem like that on mine. I just wish the battery had some kind of indicator like you see on the Dell batts. YOu push down on a little button and the leds light up to correspond to the level of charge thats in the batt at that time. My old gateway had it to I think.
    Valsmere
     
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  10. teds

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    Maybe it does this becuase speedstep is on? I'm trying to backtrack and rememeber battery settings I might have changed... any ideas?
     
    teds, Jul 6, 2005
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    No, speedstep should be on from the get go... that shouldn't have any effect on it at all. Well actually it'll effect life, but not appearing on the task bar.
     
    PROPortable, Jul 6, 2005
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    So thast not it eh... hmmm, any recommendations on stuff I shoud try downloading and installing from Asus site? Right now I'm running factory settings...
     
    teds, Jul 6, 2005
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    Hello Teds.

    Did you ever solve this problem? This is happening to me as well. The battery indicator stopped showing up on my taskbar altogether. So very annoying..
     
    Lucci, Aug 21, 2005
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  14. ArchMaster

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    Maybe try CHC instead of P4G... CHC is a way better power software.
     
    ArchMaster, Aug 23, 2005
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  15. philip_lasgourgues

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    The same thing is happening to me on my W2V so it's not restricted to one model. I don't think it's related to P4G because the battery is a Windows thing but I'd love to have it back too.

    Phil
    W2Vc-U005P
     
    philip_lasgourgues, Aug 23, 2005
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    It happens on my Dell 700M as well. I am fairly pc savvy and have yet to find out why this happens.
     
    Gravy, Aug 25, 2005
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    OK, I've finally solved this problem on my system at least. If you want try this:

    1. Right click on "My Computer" and click "Manage"
    2. Expand the "Services and Applications" option and select "Services"
    3. Select "SSDP Discovery Service", right click and select "Properties"
    4. Under "Startup Type" select "Disable"
    5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for "Universal Plug and Play Device Host"
    6. Restart and your battery meter should be back.

    This will disable Windows new hardware wizard that pops up when you connect a plug and play device but I normally cancel this and install through either device manager or the setup program for the hardware anyway.

    Hope this helps,

    Phil
    W2Vc-U005P
     
    philip_lasgourgues, Aug 26, 2005
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