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February 7, 2006 at 5:50 am #2192393
Low Battery on a Desktop Machine
Lockedby jgutman · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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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February 7, 2006 at 6:29 am #3093205
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by entawanabi · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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How old is it?
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February 7, 2006 at 6:38 am #3093191
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by jgutman · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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IT’s about 2 months old. I just installed it.
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February 7, 2006 at 6:34 am #3093199
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by jgutman · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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It’s about 2 months old. I just installed it recently.
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February 7, 2006 at 6:34 am #3093198
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by bfilmfan · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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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.
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February 7, 2006 at 6:38 am #3093190
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by jgutman · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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I already have that setting. Thanks!
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February 7, 2006 at 6:51 am #3093176
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by entawanabi · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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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.
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February 7, 2006 at 7:17 am #3093150
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by jgutman · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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I’ve checked the voltages coming out of the powersupply.. All look OK. Thanks for the idea!
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February 7, 2006 at 7:33 am #3093145
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by bfilmfan · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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Check to see if there is a battery supplying power to the BIOS chip.
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February 7, 2006 at 7:52 am #3093131
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by bizzo · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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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?-
February 7, 2006 at 8:54 am #3093096
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by jgutman · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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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.
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February 7, 2006 at 10:37 am #3093046
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by sgt_shultz · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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spyware?
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February 9, 2006 at 8:51 pm #3253881
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by wlbowers · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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Are they using a wireless mouse or keyboard.
Lee
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February 10, 2006 at 5:27 am #3253779
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by jgutman · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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Yes, both…..with new batteries
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February 21, 2006 at 12:09 pm #3102468
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by another computer guy · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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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.
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February 21, 2006 at 7:58 pm #3102913
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by bluron · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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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.
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February 24, 2006 at 12:28 am #3102295
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by thabo · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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it’s probably the cmos battery backup,which might be flat.
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January 16, 2007 at 6:13 am #2504999
Share problem might mean shared solution
by boybluesky · about 17 years, 2 months ago
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Excerpt taken from:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Miscellaneous/Q_22094685.htmlThis 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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