Vista - Vista RC1 will not charge battery

Hi there,
I have a Compaq N600c laptop with a new battery. With Windows XP and a
Vista beta, the battery would charge, and would last 3 to 4 hours without
being plugged in. Now that I have installed RC1 the battery stays at 5%, and
charging status switches between charging and not charging.

The problems started with RC1 - any ideas on how to fix this? Are there any
hidden charging settings? Or any registry settings that would affect this?
I am going to re-install the beta or XP (which ever CD I find first)
Thanks

Jeff, did you ever figure anything out about this? I just installed RC1
Build 5600 on my Toshiba Satellite. It said it was plugged in to AC, but
apparently was running on battery. Now, the laptop is dead and I cannot
charge it or run it on AC. Any ideas? Thanks.

"Jeff" wrote:

> Hi there,
> I have a Compaq N600c laptop with a new battery. With Windows XP and a
> Vista beta, the battery would charge, and would last 3 to 4 hours without
> being plugged in. Now that I have installed RC1 the battery stays at 5%, and
> charging status switches between charging and not charging.
>
> The problems started with RC1 - any ideas on how to fix this? Are there any
> hidden charging settings? Or any registry settings that would affect this?
> I am going to re-install the beta or XP (which ever CD I find first)
> Thanks

No, I never figured this out. My laptop was acting the same as yours - it
would just run off of AC, and not the battery. I could be in the same
situation as you when I go to use it next. I am going to get a copy of the
full release next week and will try installing that and see if it was just a
bug in RC1...

"Swanie" wrote:

> Jeff, did you ever figure anything out about this? I just installed RC1
> Build 5600 on my Toshiba Satellite. It said it was plugged in to AC, but
> apparently was running on battery. Now, the laptop is dead and I cannot
> charge it or run it on AC. Any ideas? Thanks.
>
> "Jeff" wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> > I have a Compaq N600c laptop with a new battery. With Windows XP and a
> > Vista beta, the battery would charge, and would last 3 to 4 hours without
> > being plugged in. Now that I have installed RC1 the battery stays at 5%, and
> > charging status switches between charging and not charging.
> >
> > The problems started with RC1 - any ideas on how to fix this? Are there any
> > hidden charging settings? Or any registry settings that would affect this?
> > I am going to re-install the beta or XP (which ever CD I find first)
> > Thanks