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    Help: No Battery Detection - Inspiron e1505

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by MrM1, May 19, 2008.

  1. MrM1

    MrM1 Notebook Consultant

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    Have an Insiroon e1505 that is about 1.7 years old running XP media edition. It may be that the battery is just old and near dead, BUT the windows power meter is not "seeing" the battery at all.

    I can unplug the AC cord and it runs on battery, so it is there and working to a limited degree. Here is a list of the oddities:

    1. no battery icon in the sys tray on battery power (only AC icon)
    2. in power options: says no battery detected
    3. in system bois from F2 restart: no battery detected, but pull the cord and it runs on battery.
    4. note book dies after about 10 minutes on battery with no warnings though warnings are set to 10%.
    5. I get no indication that the battery is charging from windows, except the hard light does blink on the case.

    What might this be?
    - dead cell in the battery pack?
    - some weird setting in windows XP?
     
    MrM1, May 19, 2008
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  2. Angelic

    Angelic Kickin' back :3

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    No settings in XP would do this, especially if your bios isnt even seeing the battery. Its most likely run its course. Probably about time to buy a new one.
     
    Angelic, May 19, 2008
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