Battery staus icon on HP windows xp

Check device manager in Batteries for microsoft ACPI compliant control method batery, maybe it needs an update or it is disabled.

You are probably right, I tried to search for the driver but I always get tricky sites with no real downloads for free.. I just received an e-mail from a pcpitstop with a link and when I click on it there is nothing to download .... just the homepage of microsoft. I am not so experienced in downloading drivers. If there is no other way I will have to ask somebody to look on my laptop physically. Thx.

Well, you can try directly from device manager by double clicking Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery and go to the driver tab and click update. Or you can try to roll it back to the previous version.


I think the Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery is installed when you install Windows, so it should be on the Win CD, the trouble is that I don't know where in it!


If I'll find the driver I'll let you know !