Upgraded My I5150 Bios and The LED battery Light was gone!

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I had no other problems other than the Battery LED indicater (the one to the very left in front) not on. The other LED lights, like the power LED and the HDD LED are but not the last one. I was wondering if anybody else has this problem? Thanks '=' 5150512Mb DDR PC2700UXGA Screen40GB 42000 RPM (suppose to be 5400 rpm!) 64Mb DDR ATI 9000Windows XPPCMark= CPU- 6733Memory- 6153HDD- 4413DMark2001= 6542

DELL-Corey · Answer

REGULATOR37, Thank you for using Dell's Community Forum. Does your battery still charge, and hold a charge?

REGULATOR37 · Answer

yes it still holds a charge. There is nothing wrong with the battery. I already ran diognostics on it.

Rattle001 · Answer

Hi, i have the same Probleme after Biosupgrade. Anny Reason?   Cu Rattle

mjonesclergy7 · Answer

Same here.  Everything else works fine??????

Rattle001 · Answer

HI, yes, everything works without any problems ,except the powerled.   Cu Rattle

bwg1971 · Answer

Did the bios update as well. Led still works but it is working backwards. It will stay fully lit until about 80% charge then it will start to blink then will turn off when completely charged. Anyone else noticed this?

Also some of the Fn key combos stopped working. The disk eject and the brightness controls no longer do anything. Again, has anyone else noticed this other glitch.

Bozon_CL · Answer

My Inspiron has the same problems. After the Bios Upgrade no Batery Led and The Fn (some) keys are not working...

Finally,

The CPU is HT capable, but the Bios does not support this feature. My inspiron has 2.5 weeks and i am very disapointed.....

REGULATOR37 · Answer

Yes I have alos noticed that the a few Fn keys are malfunctioning. This get me thinking too. Does Dell not even test the Bios or do they not care enough to try to fix this problem? I mean come on this is the first Bios upgrade and theres already problems.

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5150
512Mb DDR PC2700
UXGA Screen
40GB 42000 RPM (suppose to be 5400 rpm!)
64Mb DDR ATI 9000
Windows XP
PCMark= CPU- 6733
Memory- 6153
HDD- 441
3DMark2001= 6542

Message Edited by REGULATOR37 on 09-01-2003 09:27 PM

johnallg · Answer

I went to high school with her!  (Anny Reason).         (Sorry, I couldn't resist)(love typos!)

Beyond2 · Answer

The user upgraded their I5150 BIOS and noticed that the LED battery light was no longer working. They asked if anyone else had experienced this issue. Another user responded, mentioning that they have been waiting for a revised BIOS but have not installed A23. They asked why the user installed A23 and what problems it has corrected.

High-Tech Refug · Answer

The LED in question on my wife's Inspiron 2650 is on even when she's on AC power and the battery is fully charged.

The manual for my 5150 leads me to expect similar behavior ("If the computer is connected to an electrical outlet, the [battery] light operates as follows: solid green: the battery is fully charged ...".) But instead in this circumstance the LED is completely off.

Upgrading the BIOS to A23 solved neither the LED issue nor the fact that my system would not resume from a suspend. However, upgrading DirectX does seem to have solved the suspend/resume problem. But the LED has stubbonly retained its manual-contradicting behavior.

afinidad · Answer

I have the same problem with my Fn+F10 key...cd does not eject. Funny...the dell tech support I talked too didn't even know that the Fn+F10 key did.

Has any tried the A24 BIOS? If so, did it fix the Fn key problems?

vincen11 · Answer

how do I find the A24 bios???

afinidad · Answer

The link was posted by itzme on this forum.  Here is the link: http://ftp.us.dell.com/bios/I5150A24.EXE I've installed A24 and it did not fix my Fn+F10 key problem

Redbone · Answer

I installed A24 and it doesn't fix any problems at all, so far as I can tell it is the same as A23.

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