Oli4

I have called today to Acer. They came up with a driver issue. I had to remove the driver for 'Microsoft AC adapter'. After I removed this nothing happend. So they said that I had to bring in my laptop for repair.

Yeah...so I will look futher myself first before spending money.

I felt that I shouldn't remove the 'Microsoft AC adapter', because that is working. So I removed the other driver (free translated from dutch to english, so forgive me if it doesn't say exactly the same on your machine) so called 'battery that complies with Microsoft ACPI module'.

And what do you think...it works! I'm very happy with it, but I have the feeling that Acer wants to make some easy money here because the immediatly came up with some sort of short-circuit between the battery and my keyboard. No further help, even when I mensiond that I would disable the other driver to try.

Anyway, this is what you do:

Go to the Control Panel. Go to System. Go to hardware, and to Hardware manager (free translated, it is the panel where you see all the hardware that is installed on your machine). Expand the 'battery' tab. Disable the 'battery that complies with Microsoft ACPI module'. Do not remove it, because Windows automaticly reïnstalls it, but disabeling it works. You should restart the machine. Now you can use your battery once again! :)