XPS m1530 - A12 Battery Problems

Hi,

I'm one of the lucky ones that upgraded the bios to A12 and the battery stopped charging. Great yeah? Ok. Dell support says: Revert to A09. Ok but now "The battery must be charged above 10% before the system BIOS can be flashed."
Great I only have 5%. Searching on google, I found a way to create the bootable pen drive. There is a tool of HP that formats and create it. So you just need to download this stuff and also the ISO of Win98SE disk boot. Unzip the ISO using WinRAR to a folder. Point the HP software to this folder and tcharam!!! you can boot from the pendrive.
To boot from it: keep pressing F12 while loading the BIOS then choose USB Storage pendrive.
on the command prompt type: 1530_A09.exe /forceit (if you dont type forceit you will get the same message from windows)
Ok then you have the A09 bios back. And my battery is still not charging.
Ok I tried to upgrade to A12 again.

Now at least when I plug the power it charges for like 30 seconds.. then stop... so if I keep plug and unplugging I can charge the laptop.

Anyone can help me?
I'm living in Brazil and I bought my laptop at India, so Dell Support says I should contact Dell india. But we know that it would take months. So great International Support!!!!!

I found that there is a Charger Board on the laptop.
What is the chance that this is the problem? I saw that the Charger Board of other laptops are not so expensive.. like 10~20 usd on ebay.

I can't understand how a BIOS can do this. Maybe now the laptop is hotter and burnt something?
The guy from the support here in Brazil said to wait for some more days/week until they release a new BIOS.
Does anyone think that a new bios can fix this headache?

 

I've been having this same problem with my m1530 for over a month now (possibly since I upgraded to A12).

Have you had any luck fixing the problem?

I've been trying the HP Drive Key Boot Utility as you suggested, but so far have not had any luck getting it to boot to the flash drive. Still trying...


Thanks for the info.

 

SUCCESS AT LAST!!!!!!

Using this tutorial I was finally able to make a workable usb boot disk. Then copied Bios A09 to the root of the flash drive.

Then restarted and from the cmd prompt I ran "1530_A09.exe /forceit"

The bios flashing was uneventful and upon restarting the battery started charging again.

Good luck to the rest of you guys.

 

This also fixed my issue. Which is pretty strange as A12 worked for about a month without any problems until today.

 

I had the exact same issue though I was still on A06. Updating to A12 didn't help but then tried A09 and now charging again!

Thanks for the advice.

 

I followed this tutorial but when Windows 98 boots, it just seems to hang there. I left it for many many minutes.

rlamontagne, Did you have any issues whatsoever?
I even tried FreeDos and had problems with that too. Ugh!! So frustrating.
I've spent so many hours downloading boot disk images, utilities, iso files, cd drive emulators, etc, etc.
I swear it'd be easy for me to crack the bios utility to skip the battery check!

Any help will be GREATLY appreciated.
Ion

 

Finally got it working. If you have trouble like me, see this.

 

i have an edited a12 bios that wont ask you for the battery being charged that i reversed to make it skip that command.... how do i post it here