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    Any way to display battery time left?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by tiesto81, Mar 20, 2007.

  1. tiesto81

    tiesto81 Notebook Geek

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    I can't figure out a way to make the battery time remaining display for the dv9000. Is there anyway to have it show up? I've tried a windows gadget that supports timer display but in the threads where people said they couldn't work, the author of the gadget said it relies on windows data.

    If windows is unable to retrieve that data to begin with it won't display it. Is this just a hardware oversight on HP's part? thanks.
     
    tiesto81, Mar 20, 2007
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    hehe299792458 Notebook Deity

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    1) Check to see if all your drivers are installed properly

    2) Use NHC instead. It offers so many features not found on windows
     
    hehe299792458, Mar 20, 2007
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  3. tiesto81

    tiesto81 Notebook Geek

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    From what I understand, NHC does not work on Vista and has caused some nasty crashes for others. Has this changed?

    I'll check into the driver issue - I figured they'd have the latest drivers installed off the bat for the battery.
     
    tiesto81, Mar 20, 2007
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    SideSwipe Notebook Virtuoso

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    NHC website doesnt have any mention of vista support or a newer version for vista
     
    SideSwipe, Mar 20, 2007
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    sandt38 Notebook Consultant

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    Blue screen of death. There is supposedly a patch for it, but the patch also causes a blue screen error.

    To the origional poster...

    search Yahoo Widgets. I use " system dashboard-battery monitor". I also use their CPU meter and the RAM meter.
     
    sandt38, Mar 20, 2007
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    NHC does not work with Vista
     
    mtor, Mar 20, 2007
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    tweety18873 Notebook Consultant

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    I second that, NHC does not work with VISTA
     
    tweety18873, Mar 20, 2007
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