The battery on my acer aspire 1360 is not charging and not recognized by windows ("not present" on XP power options)

The only other suggestion is contact Acer customer and technical support to see if there is a resolution to your problem.

that is always an issue bout the battery of the laptops of ACER....any kind of acer...you should buy a new battery....and when you buy a new one...make sure that you don't use when you're charging it...cause that is the number 1 reason why the battery is not charging... :p

The problem for the Acer Aspire 3000 series is into the chipset battery, that comunicate to the PC through a serial protocol (probably I2C) to sent information, charge, status, etc.
Due to an ACPI bug, the battery module is not recognized by Windows. Bios upgrade doesn't solve the problem.

To solve the proble there are three ways:
- change the Hal driver to "PC standard"
- disable (not uninstall) the "Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery " and "Microsoft AC adapter"
- unplug the battery for 1 minute and re-plug it (with windows running).

The first metod work fine but Wi-Fi doesn't wok. All the rest of hardware yes, "Suspend" not possible, you must torn off the PC manally. Not Good!

The second is the right. It work only if your PC (HAL driver) is configured at "PC uniprocessor ACPI", see Microsoft documentation for help (HAL options after Windows Xp setup...).

The best way is to install a fresh Windows Xp, WITHOUT BATTERY INSERTED!!!. Windows configure it automatically in the right option.
After installion start Windows, important leave battery unplug,
then go to the device manager, expand "Batteries"; than disable "Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery" and "Microsoft AC adapter". It's fondamental to not disinstall them, otherwise windows re-install them at next boot!
Now you have a complete usable PC with ACPI enable (suspend, auto power off,...), windows does not comunicate with the battery, and the system doesn't freeze. The PC is also able to charge the battery and use it, the only unusable function is the battery status.
The battery infact is charged by hardware not by software. If you are in battery mode you can't now how charge remain.

I have an Acer Aspire 3005 WLMi, with the same bug and now i use it without problem.
Sorry for my bad english,

Stefano Bassi.

If you are running windows vista or windows 7 then you need to go to the power setting on the system, in the advanced options and look for wireless power setting. Turn the when on battery setting to leave the wireless card running instead of turning it off.

Go to display settings, screen saver, power options, balanced power or power saver, and look in there for the wireless adapter.

hi there,
go to the control pannal and double click on power optin then battery tab check the show status battery option and click ok
your battery status will show again.

Download the drivers from the Acer WEB site Make sure you select the model of your laptop and the Win98 version of the drivers Use this link to get to the Acer support: -
http://www.acersupport.com/notebook/index.html

If you are getting a Blue screen repeatedly and you can't start up to windows in any custom setting ( from f8 start up menu ) one way to solve the problem is to Use the restore disc or windows installation cd or dvd to install windows into the computer or perform a repair installation if a windows already exists on the computer and the setup can find it.

how to perform a repair installation

this is for xp, but its similar on 2000 and on vista.

insert your Windows XP Setup CD, and restart your computer.

1.When the Press any key to boot from CD message is displayed on your screen, press a key to start your computer from the Windows XP CD.

if not then the computer is not set to start up from a cd, you can either enter the setup / bios to change that setting OR right when you power up the computer look at the screen it will say what button to press in order to enter boot menu or bios, it will very likely be button F12 or similar, it should say on the screen when you power on.

if it doesn't, then you need to go into the bios and change the boot order so that the computer starts from the CD first.

after that you should be able to start from the cd and install the OS (Operating system, eg.Windows)

here's some info on how to work the bios: http://www.whitecanyon.com/how-to-change-boot-order.php


Repeat step 1 when you have changed the boot order.

2.Press ENTER when you see the message To setup Windows XP now, and then press ENTER displayed on the Welcome to Setup screen.

3.Do not choose the option to press R to use the Recovery Console.

4.In the Windows XP Licensing Agreement, press F8 to agree to the license agreement.

5.Make sure that your current installation of Windows XP is selected in the box, and then press R to repair Windows XP.

6.Follow the instructions on the screen to complete Setup.

7.Ones windows is working you will need the drivers for your computer, they are at the makers website, for hp and compaq. www.hp.com for acer http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/downloads.html for all other brands go to google and write Brand drivers. Should get you to the right place. Dell is most likely www.dell.com and so on.

tell him to download a new installer for windows vista visit this web site> (http://www.acer.com)> good luck to him and only you

No restore patition on the Acer. The download is the same in any computer, desktop or latop. Install XP and download the drivers from Acer, that simple.

is it hot when your laptop shut off ?
if it is, try to clean you cpu fan and heatsink