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    Enough is enough! : Optical battery

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Deus, Jul 29, 2006.

  1. Deus

    Deus Notebook Consultant

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    I bought this W3J mainly because of the optional second battery. Why the **** am I stuck witha mchine that shuts off when one of the two batteries deplete. I have tried everything from reformatting, repartitioning, uninstalling software and nothing has worked! Why is this not concidered a high level item for ASUS to fix! This shutoff has happened at the wron time too many times (not that theres a great time).

    When are we getting a **** fix for this!



    ...this was typed with one breath lol I'm pissed
     
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  2. jterp7

    jterp7 Notebook Deity

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    looks like im gonna hold off on buying that for now..****
     
    jterp7, Jul 29, 2006
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  3. SRD

    SRD Notebook Virtuoso

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    thats kinda strange ive owned 3 asus laptops that had the optical battery they all worked great. sounds like a problem just you are having so as to what is asus going to fix this just call them. jterp7 dont worry about it it seems like a isolated issue.
     
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  4. Leong

    Leong Notebook Geek

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    I'm pretty sure, alotta people had this problem, and I think the solution was reformatting the drive to NTFS...
     
    Leong, Jul 29, 2006
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  5. Leong

    Leong Notebook Geek

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  6. gwesterbanned me

    gwesterbanned me Notebook Geek

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    I thought that this issue could be fixed by removing all partitions?



    sad though... casue I want to use partition and am planning on an 2nd optical battery too....


    COME OUT WITH A FIX ASUS!


    PS: maybe try complaining to ASUS... if their service is good, they should at least put some pressure on the people who right BIOS' to try to fix this... besides, the squeeky wheel is the one that get oiled...
     
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  7. NZwaverider

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    Yeah have a look for other threadds and fixes for this problem, I have the optical bay battery in my W3J and it has worked fine, under the stock config and with my new 160GB HDD formatted to ntfs. It works fine.

    it is interesting why it works well for some people and not others? if you re-format you should test it first, it may be other software causing the problem?
     
    NZwaverider, Jul 29, 2006
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  8. Deus

    Deus Notebook Consultant

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    Trust me, I have read ALL the threads. I tried one partition, I tried NTFS. The only thing I have not tested with is a clean install of XP. I didn't want to have to do that but I may have to. I also do not want NTFS I am playing with Linux and different configurations and do not want the limitations of NTFS. With Fat32 I can repartition all I want. I may try a 7200rpm drive with a clean install of XP.

    I will report back.

    HERE IS THE WIERD THINGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The battery JUST SWITCH OVER FINE!!! WTF!!!!. This has happened before. It is not consistent. hmmmm

    Thats it ! I think it posessed! :eek:
     
    Deus, Jul 29, 2006
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  9. mythless

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    Well, if that is the case you can either do two things, like you mention a pure clean reinstall, or talk to asus (like the others mentioned) and see how far that goes.

    And, if and only if that all fails...you might need to call an exorcist / medium / etc... anything to keep you mind at ease until the problem is fix. If you live where I do, I know a Roman Catholic Exorcist, lol. :)

    Good luck
     
    mythless, Jul 29, 2006
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