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    SOLUTION: New BIOS Updates Fix Win7 Battery Replacement Message

    Discussion in 'HP' started by justinkw1, Dec 24, 2010.

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    If you currently own an older HP Pavilion or Compaq Presario notebook manufactured in 2006 or in 2007 and have Windows 7 installed on it, you may be currently experiencing an issue with Windows suggesting that you replace your notebook battery. This can be in the form of a message in the taskbar, or a red X over the battery icon.

    Doing some research, it looks like HP and Microsoft have been working on fixing this issue. It afflicts older notebooks made in the Windows Vista era. In addition to Microsoft releasing a software fix (see below), HP has released several new BIOS updates for certain notebook models that were especially affected. Please make sure you select the correct BIOS package for your notebook model! Failure to do so may render your notebook unusable!


    • HP Pavilion dv6000, dv6100, dv6200, dv6300, dv6400 series - AMD
      This BIOS update is relevant to HP Pavilion dv60xx - dv64xx and Compaq Presario V60xx - V64xx notebooks with an AMD processor, where "x" is some digit.
      Flash to BIOS version F.43 - ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp48001-48500/sp48125.exe

    • HP Pavilion dv6500, dv6600, dv6700, dv6800, dv6900 series - AMD
      This BIOS update is relevant to HP Pavilion dv65xx - dv69xx and Compaq Presario V65xx - V69xx notebooks with an AMD processor, where "x" is some digit.
      Flash to BIOS version F.33 - ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp48001-48500/sp48124.exe

    • HP Pavilion dv6500, dv6600, dv6700, dv6800, dv6900 series - INTEL
      This BIOS update is relevant to HP Pavilion dv65xx - dv69xx and Compaq Presario V65xx - V69xx notebooks with an INTEL processor, where "x" is some digit.
      Flash to BIOS version F.5A - ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp48001-48500/sp48024.exe

    These BIOS releases provided here are for reference only, and this will hopefully help those of you who are experiencing this problem.

    For more information on this issue, visit the following links:
     
    justinkw1, Dec 24, 2010
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