System battery question

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I have an 8300 less than a year old. I went ahead and installed the SP2
update a couple of days ago. After installing, I started to get a (System
Battery Getting Low) message at startup. Press F1 to continue of F2 to
enter system setup. Isn't it pretty rare to have a system battery go bad
after only one year? Has anyone else heard of this problem after installing
SP2? Any Thoughts?

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I was getting this message on my 8300 after only two or three months. Update
your BIOS.

"trum979" <trum979@ccrtc.com> wrote in message
news:10j64allstube08@corp.supernews.com...
>I have an 8300 less than a year old. I went ahead and installed the SP2
>update a couple of days ago. After installing, I started to get a (System
>Battery Getting Low) message at startup. Press F1 to continue of F2 to
>enter system setup. Isn't it pretty rare to have a system battery go bad
>after only one year? Has anyone else heard of this problem after
>installing SP2? Any Thoughts?
>

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It apears I've spoken to soon, have started getting the same low voltage
warning again. Is this a standard 3.3v battery. And will I have to reenter
my bios settings after replacing the battery? Thanks
"trum979" <trum979@ccrtc.com> wrote in message
news:10j6ele7bhd1dfe@corp.supernews.com...
> Thanks Much. That did the trick.
> "WSZsr" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:mYEYc.11570$6g.6018@newssvr24.news.prodigy.com...
>>I was getting this message on my 8300 after only two or three months.
>>Update your BIOS.
>>
>> "trum979" <trum979@ccrtc.com> wrote in message
>> news:10j64allstube08@corp.supernews.com...
>>>I have an 8300 less than a year old. I went ahead and installed the SP2
>>>update a couple of days ago. After installing, I started to get a (System
>>>Battery Getting Low) message at startup. Press F1 to continue of F2 to
>>>enter system setup. Isn't it pretty rare to have a system battery go bad
>>>after only one year? Has anyone else heard of this problem after
>>>installing SP2? Any Thoughts?
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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"CaptainKrunch" <nobody@nothing.com> wrote:

>general battery replacement doesn't require anything except just
>replacing....usually. I too would have a hard time believing that a
>lithium battery would be going out after only a year. Hell I just replaced
>the one on our Gateway desktop and it is 6 years old.

Granted, batteries probably suffer fewer, percentage-wise, than
other electric/electronic components, but all are subject to
"infant" failure early in the bell curves that constitute MTBF
and/or Mean Life. Remember, *someone's* battery has to fall at
the one-year point of the mean life curve.
--
OJ III
[Email to Yahoo address may be burned before reading.
Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast.]

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"trum979" <trum979@ccrtc.com> wrote in message
news:10j64allstube08@corp.supernews.com...
>I have an 8300 less than a year old. I went ahead and installed the SP2
>update a couple of days ago. After installing, I started to get a (System
>Battery Getting Low) message at startup. Press F1 to continue of F2 to
>enter system setup. Isn't it pretty rare to have a system battery go bad
>after only one year? Has anyone else heard of this problem after
>installing SP2? Any Thoughts?
>

Here is a long thread about this problem at Dell Community Forums:
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportf [...] ing&page=1


Doug