Sam Goldwasser wrote in
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Sam Goldwasser writes:

bz writes:

Sam Goldwasser wrote in
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This is a Presario 1200 series. It works fine in every other
respect but not only does the battery not charged or recognized,
there is no evidence that the OS even knows this is a laptop with a
battery. Device Manager has no entry for battery management and the
"Power Options" entry in Control Panel doesn't have a battery mode.

So, is this bad OS install or bad hardware? It's XP. Yes, believe
it or not, I'm not running Dos 3.0 on this one.

Any comments appreciated. This isn't a big deal as the battery is
old and most likely dead anyhow, but I'm curious.

Yes, I know what they say about curiosity.

You might visit support.dell.com, download the XP drivers for that
model and install them.

I did that but only found drivers for the touchpad and something else
unrelated. Is there a place at dell.com that will have all drivers for
a machine that old?

That should have read: hp.com or compaq.com. P.S. the complete
model number is 12XL420.

compaq.com, yeah!

Well, HP has a link for downloading the 'HP battery check' on
http://tinyurl.com/357w2a
but the link seems to be broken.

Perhaps, knowing what you are looking for, google can help you find it.
Perhaps someone has the original installation CD for that model.

Good luck.





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