laptop battery isn't seen

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Published on 2009-10-14T17:40:31Z Indexed on 2010/04/17 15:54 UTC
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Hi there,

I have a laptop, which was most of the time on wired power. Now it seems to not work at all on battery and in Control Panel->Power Option battery isn't recognized at all(is 0%).

Do you have any idea about what can I do?

ps: my laptop is Acer Aspire 1640z and I'm using Windows XP SP3

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