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Battery recalibration message on boot up
I have an Inspiron 1200 that after receiving the battery recalibration message on boot up, I followed the
instructions to discharge the battery. The battery icon showed empty or zero but the text underneath said
1% charged. It did not seem to discharge further so I plugged in the adapter and charged it to 100%.
The problem is that on each boot up the "battery recalibration is required....." message comes up.
How do I eliminate this message?
Russ
balaji, thanks for your reply. Your suggestion did not work for me. I let the battery discharge until the laptop shut off. Then plugged in the A/C adapter - the laptop stayed off so I let it charge about 20 mimutes, then pushed the start button. It now booted up and I received the same message as before
that recallibration is needed - push F1 to continue or Esc to exit recallibration. Any ideas?
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Posted April 22nd, 2008 16:00
What happens when you hit F1 and follow the instructions that follow (I don't even know whether there are instructions to follow, I am just guessing)? Do you always hit esc at that prompt to continue with the boot?When I hit F1 there is a message to unplug the A/C adapter and discharge to empty.
There is an diagram of a battery showing the level of charge and text below indicating
% charged. When the level drops to 0 and the text says 0% charged I plugged in the charger
- charged to 100% then hit Esc. The laptop booted up - but the next time I booted up I
got the battery requires recalibration message. This time I hit F1, unplugged the charger and let
the battery discharge until the laptop shut off per your suggestion. Then I plugged in the charger
and after about 20 minutes, pressed the restart button. It then showed the same battery requires recalibration message. This time I hit Esc to complete the bootup.
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Posted April 22nd, 2008 16:00
This is something I found on the gateway support site when I googled the message you are seeing. I don't know whether your BIOS has a setting for battery learning, but it might be worth looking into.
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Posted April 22nd, 2008 16:00
At this point, I am stumped and have no idea where this message is coming from and how to make it go away. If you do find a solution, please post back so that others can learn from it. If not, you might just have to live with hitting esc everytime you boot up.balaji.ramanat Thanks for trying. I don't know of any BIOS battery learning - will keep
searching and use the Esc key in the meantime.
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Posted April 22nd, 2008 20:00
You are welcome, and good luck.
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Posted April 18th, 2008 20:00