"Consider Replacing Your Battery"
I am using a acer laptop and have recently installed the Windows 7. I was using the Windows vista HB before, and did not have any issues with the battery, but now the battery symbol in the NOTIFICATION bar is crossed out and the exact error message is that "[t]here is a problem with your battery, so your computer might shut down suddenly". The battery I am using is 1 year old, so it may in fact need to be replaced, but as far as I can tell it is functioning properly...

Did anybody else run into this problem, and do you guys think that the battery does in fact need to be replaced?
 
i have also reffered to the microsoft forums and sevens' have a look at it
it seems to be a bug because a million of peeps got this kind of problem what do you think members??
have a look at these links: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprohardware/thread/c6c043e6-eeb1-4e61-870d-896ca2f865d6


http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/18312-consider-replacing-your-battery.html

but microsoft refuses to accept this ::

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/microsoft-says-windows-7-battery-issue-isnt-one/It's a bug. but not with windows. with the ACPI support of some BIOSes.

it's interesting how everybody in that thread you linked is complaining "please fix this microsoft"

"oh Microsoft, why didn't you fix it in the RTM" etc etc. misplaced blame, really.

If I may retell a story I read in "The Old New Thing" regarding Windows 95 support; originally, they used a "HALT" instruction to conserve battery life in some situations on laptop computers. Some specific (and un-named) vendor's laptops froze irretrievably and couldn't be recovered from the HALT. So they took it out.

And then people were complaining that MS didn't use the HALT instruction. "How could they be so stupid" etc.

Anyway- back to the issue at hand, It's a problem with Acer (note that, interestingly enough, even though the original poster in the linked thread has a machine from LG, Acer actually manufactures the hardware for LG... can't be a coincidence.

Quote from: aditya_aditya2004 on May 13, 2010, 09:34:57 AM

The battery I am using is 1 year old, so it may in fact need to be replaced, but as far as I can tell it is functioning properly...

Did anybody else run into this problem, and do you guys think that the battery does in fact need to be replaced?