Thinkpad 390E battery recognition problem

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Hi
I'm posting this query for a friend. He has a 390E that was working fine
with Win 95, he installed 98 to be compatible with his digital camera. Now
it doesn't seem to think it has any batteries, power management shows both
battery bays as empty. It works on AC. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Brian, in Cedar

Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops (More info?)

He did. He got the required drivers from an IBM website and installed them.
Everything else works fine, it just can't seem to find it's batteries.

"instauratio" <instauratio(nospam)@twmi.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Did he update the drivers? Laptops are more particular than a desktop.
> To my knowledge you can't just willy nilly slap a new operating system
> on. You have to go to the manufacturers' site and download the
> appropriate drivers.
>
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:22:55 GMT, "Brian Barnson"
> <deathtospammers@ethanol.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi
> >I'm posting this query for a friend. He has a 390E that was working fine
> >with Win 95, he installed 98 to be compatible with his digital camera.
Now
> >it doesn't seem to think it has any batteries, power management shows
both
> >battery bays as empty. It works on AC. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
> > Brian, in Cedar
> >
>