Problems with MediaBay battery??

Hi
Today I received MediaBay battery for my W3, I swap it with dvd drive and it works fine but there's couple of minor things. First of all I don't see pictures when I'm changing brightness or volume, you know, the one on left top corner. And second thing (more annoying) is that laptop is having VERY SHORT (1/2-1/4 sec) suspends during working in Windows, I can see it especially when using touchpad, the mouse cursor stops for a moment, for a while all is ok and then again - a little suspend. Anybody has had that problem too?

 

This problem may be an isolated case.

I suggest restart the laptop, do a fresh boot, and leave the modular bay battery in the laptop.

Then check if the volume and birghtness screens appears and if you recieve slowness from the touchpad.

If everything works nicely after the boot, then take out the battery, wait 1 min, instert the DVD rom, see what happens.

Then re-insert the modular bay and see if the same problem occurs.

I am assmuming you had none of these problems before the modular bay battery was put in?

 

No problems before. Brightness screens are ok after reboot so one problem is solved. I will check touchpad a little latter, right now I'm charging both batteries so I will disconnect it in about 2 hours. And one more thing. While I have two batteries at the same time, Windows will show me one battery icon with for example 5:30h of battery life or will be there two icons, one for each battery? And I guess charging two batteries will take much more time than one.

edit. With BOTH batteries in and on AC there is no problem with touchpad.

 

Ok, can someone explain me how both batteries should work. Cause right now it looks like computer is using BOTH batteries at the same moment. When both are connected the battery icon in NHC shows me (after one hour working) Middle (25%) 1h26min. When I pull off optical one I have Middle (59%) 1h25min. I must admit that I don't understand this situation at all. So right now laptop is using optical, main or both. And what will happen after another 1,5h?? Cause now it looks like it will shut down after almost 3 hours...just like it has ONLY main battery. I give up

edit.
BTW when I was charging both batteries battery icon showed 43% and didn't want to go higher. I pulled off second battery and it shows 100%(main battery was fully charged I suppose) but why it shows 43% WITH optical battery inside?? Arggg

edit2.
Maybe there are some options in BIOS that I have to turn on??

edit3.
With two batteries charging I pull off the power cable and laptop switched off imidietly

edit4.
Laptop turned off after 2:05 which means that didn't switched to second battery. But most funny part is that when I turn it on MAIN battery was also discharged. WTF is going on here?!?!

 

OK, I know what is messed up. System detects one battery which is actually two batteries (capacities are added to each other and that is why it shows 43% of battery life) BUT drain power only from ONE REAL battery which is optical in this case. And that's why it shut down after 2 hours. The question is why main battery is not detectable (also why system doesn't switch to main after optical dischared). Anybody? Cause I don't have any further ideas.

 

What modding utils are you using? Battery meter? Everest? Notebook hardwaRE CONTROL? Seen a similar issue with a z71v and its optical battery, Customer was using a severely modded for of windows. Instead of messing with we loaded a test drive and everything worked.....

 

NHC but I guess it is no matter cause Windows (Start->Control Panel->Power Options->Power Meter) shows exactly the same thing. I turned off NHC and here you have screens :
without optical batt :
with optical batt :

 

Hmmm darned if i can remember why it is that i saw the same on the z71v. Like i said i really didnt go into much details but swapping the customers drive for our own took care of the problem. Not much insight there but i do believe that your problem is a soft conflict caused by either aftermarket soft or some system changes you made. I do not belive this problem is present out of the box.

 

How about remove everything which might mess up with ACPI:

NHC or RMClock
Microsoft .NET Framework
Everest or SpeedFan or whatever
and all the rest of this software

stop Power4Gear if it's running, then setup Windows power settings on Portable/laptop

and then see how everything goes?

Even do a reinstall of the ACPI drivers & hotfixes from the install CD?

You can use MobileMeter to check battery status, that software is _only_ reading characteristics and doesn't mess with anything.

 

So let's BIG CLEANING begin!! I hope you're right about it guys

 

I give up, I will send battery back - I set up brand new system and there's the same situation

 

I've just got second battery and the situation is exactly the same. At the weekend I set up a whole new system, I even formated HDD with Seagate software and nothing. Still W3 detects capacity of two batteries but drain only from the second one. I have no NHC, RMClock, pure system, P4G off. So I guess my W3 is messed up in this matter and I have to live without mediabay battery