Hello Rich Ran, Thank you for posting. There could be that your battery is getting old and it might not be showing up in your BIOS. Before checking that let’s check some settings in Device manager. Check in device manage under ACPI setting. It will be the first line or second line open it and see what the settings are. The battery can be enable or disable from there. If you still have the problem then move to check the BIOS to see if it shows up there.

After upgrade, no battery was detected by the laptop. I like Win 10, but if no solution is found, I'll neeed to roll back to Win 7 pretty soon, or I'll be stuck with a laptop that's permanently turned into a desktop. This morning when i started my laptop (Vista Home Edition) on AC power, the battery icon (battery with plug) was showing a cross and when i hovered over the icon, it says 'No Battery is detected. When i open the battery meter software, the first tab 'battery status' was showing all controls empty and disabled.

You don’t have to change anything just see if the battery shows up. You laptop manufacturer can provide the steps to do this. Most notebook batteries are rated to last 400 cycles, which is usually one year of 'normal' use. While I have seen them last longer than this it doesn't happen often. The exact amount of time you get out of the battery will depend on environment and usage. If the battery is not being detected in the BIOS then the problem is either with the battery itself or the battery bay/motherboard on the system. If you have access to another battery I would recommend trying the other battery in your computer and your battery in the other computer.

Doing this will allow you to test whether your computer can see any battery, or just fails to see yours. If the problem is the bay/motherboard then I recommend you contact your laptop manufacturer. Zack Microsoft Answers Support Engineer Visit our and let us know what you think.

Hi All, I have 7 old Samsung R519 laptops that I'm selling off, all of which are displaying a 'battery not detected' on the battery meter. -Each laptop is running a fresh install of Vista Home (reset to factory defaults) -Each laptop also has a battery and a functioning charger.

Booting one of the laptops into Ubuntu worked fine, no problem detecting the battery there, and it even holds it's charge for hours without the cable. However when booting into Vista on the same machine, the computer shuts down after 3 seconds without the cable plugged in. The only similar issues I've found on Google were solved by buying a new battery. I don't want to buy 7 new batteries for machines I know work perfectly well outside of Vista. Anyone find a software solution to this problem before?

Advise the buyers these laptops are being sold as is and that that they are 7 compatible, assuming they are since pretty much anything that runs Vista will run 7. No more worries and they are off your hands. If your selling them to employees, tell them the same thing and that IT is no longer supporting them and make the employees sign a waver. This is what I did when we disposed of older computers. Game Untuk Hp Mito 700 on this page. Just restore them back to factory and get rid of them. No sense in working your ass off for older equipment you plan to get rid of. Work smarter not harder. Hpscan.exe there.

The issue your having seems to be a very prevalent one with Vista, although there doesn't seem to be any agreed upon solution. It's all over the board, everything from replace the battery, update the BIOS, check manufacturer's website for Battery Utilities, to uninstalling/reinstalling a bunch of drivers. So if you're not up for installing a different OS, the only solution may be just to inform the buyer of this issue, but also maybe use a VM to show them that the battery is fine within Linux, Good luck. Turned the laptop off Removed the battery Held the power button down (a HP technician recommend this to drain remaining charge, never heard that one before) Replaced the battery Started the laptop without the charger cable. Vista recognised the battery and everything seems fine now. Not sure which part fixed the problem, between this sequence and the multitude of updates I installed.