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    Low Battery on a Desktop Machine

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    by jgutman ·

    My client is running Windows Media Center. It is a desktop. Intermittently, a warning icon and ballon will show up in the lower left-hand corner of the screen saying, to the effect, “Caution! Critical low battery! Plug in now to prevent lost work!” (or words to that effect). The only problem, this in NOT a laptop! There ain’t no battery! Needless to say, this a bit unnerving for my client. Any ideas??

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    • #3093205

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      by entawanabi ·

      In reply to Low Battery on a Desktop Machine

      How old is it?

    • #3093199

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      by jgutman ·

      In reply to Low Battery on a Desktop Machine

      It’s about 2 months old. I just installed it recently.

    • #3093198

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      by bfilmfan ·

      In reply to Low Battery on a Desktop Machine

      Sure. Change the Power Settings for the system.

      Go to Control Panel. Click Power Options. Choose the Power Schemes tab. Using the scroll bar, choose Home/Office Desk.

    • #3093176

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      by entawanabi ·

      In reply to Low Battery on a Desktop Machine

      See if the fuse to, or that is a part of the charging circuit is blown or ?wore? out; don’t know if that is possible only know what thwe electricians tell me.

    • #3093145

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      by bfilmfan ·

      In reply to Low Battery on a Desktop Machine

      Check to see if there is a battery supplying power to the BIOS chip.

    • #3093131

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      by bizzo ·

      In reply to Low Battery on a Desktop Machine

      A couple of things you could look at:
      1. Maybe the CMOS battery is below good? You can download utilites to check the state of the CMOS battery, etc.
      2. Does the user have any wireless keyboard/mouse etc, or anything connected to the machine, pda etc, that could be sending a critical low battery error?
      3. Is there a UPS configured or connected?

      • #3093096

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        by jgutman ·

        In reply to Reply To: Low Battery on a Desktop Machine

        1) I’m checking the voltage level of the BIOS battery.
        2) Yes, there is a wireless keyboard/mouse. Both have brand new batteries (but I didn’t think that the power warning from them would show up as the “laptop” battery alarm.
        3) Yes, there is a UPS being used, but there is NO data line from the UPS to the PC. To the PC, the UPS just looks like a wall outlet.

        Thanks for the help! I’ll update more after I check the BIOS battery level.

    • #3093046

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      by sgt_shultz ·

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      spyware?

    • #3253881

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      by wlbowers ·

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      Are they using a wireless mouse or keyboard.

      Lee

    • #3102468

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      by another computer guy ·

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      I think bfilmfan had the right idea with regards to the power setting. If the power setting is already set to Home/Office Desk, change it to something else, apply, and reboot. Now go back into your Power settings and return the setting to Home/Office Desk and reboot once again to make sure that the change gets written to the Registry. Of course, I’m not sure this will work, but it seems worth a shot.

    • #3102913

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      by bluron ·

      In reply to Low Battery on a Desktop Machine

      on the mother board there is a coin type battery ie like the old writst watchs, about the size of a dime. this keeps power to the static rom while the machine is unplugged. also helps keep time on computers that are unplugged. hope this helps.

    • #3102295

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      by thabo ·

      In reply to Low Battery on a Desktop Machine

      it’s probably the cmos battery backup,which might be flat.

    • #2504999

      Share problem might mean shared solution

      by boybluesky ·

      In reply to Low Battery on a Desktop Machine

      Excerpt taken from:
      http://www.experts-exchange.com/Miscellaneous/Q_22094685.html

      This thing happens when you install windows with a option for Portable Computer. Windows then installs the required programs,
      so when you are on windows and the program doesn’t detects any battery it displays the information/message on low battery.

      To remove it in windows xp…
      Right Click on MY COMPUTER
      Select Manage
      Select Device Manager from left pane
      Select Batteries in right pane (click on + sign)
      Select the battery displayed
      Right Click on it
      Select Disable
      and you are done

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