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    Battery Care (FW11M)

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by SoulBane, Mar 15, 2009.

  1. SoulBane

    SoulBane Newbie

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    I did a clean install a while back, I don't have recovery CD's(so solutions involving them, if any, wouldn't be that useful to me hehe).

    I want to use the battery care function, so I installed the utility, but all the options are greyed out. I tried installing the Sony shared library and the utility dll, but still nothing.

    Can anyone tell me how to get it working or if it's even possible, or if there is some other way I can stop the battery charging when it reaches a certain level.

    Thanks in advance for your time and replies :)
     
    SoulBane, Mar 15, 2009
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  2. Visioneer

    Visioneer Notebook Evangelist

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    Your laptop/battery combo doesn't support battery care. You can't get that software working.
     
    Visioneer, Mar 15, 2009
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  3. owais

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    wont ALT+F10 let you system restore to factory settings?
     
    owais, Mar 15, 2009
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  4. SoulBane

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    The laptop/battery combo does support battery care because it was on before I formatted :p

    I could restore the factory settings, but I don't want to as that would restore all the bloatware too :(

    I was thinking it was stored in the BIOS somewhere, but on inspection the BIOS has very few settings, I presume some of the more advanced/useful stuff is locked/hidden.
     
    SoulBane, Mar 15, 2009
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    Visioneer, Mar 15, 2009
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