Tech Dreamer

thanks man!
it worked for me and my computer
is as funtional as ever.

thanks again.

I have this issue and I never got a chance to resolve it and then my computer crashed because the battery didn’t charge dell told me. I don’t really believe that was the issue. I have only had the computer for 2 years and a battery not charging doesn’t seem like that would crash a computer. Have you had any other people with the same problem. Please let me know thanks Phaedra

Thanks so much for your advice, flashing the BIOS was the only fix for me also. Unfortunately, I ran into a slight problem in the middle of flashing though- could not complete due to error -144. After some research I found that this could easily be fixed by taking out my battery and re-flashing the BIOS (apparently it won’t complete the flash if the computer thinks you are running on battery power). My days of frustration are finally over, my battery is now happily charging away

Thanks again!

Hi guys and gals,

Glad I could help some of you.
Unfortunately for myself, my battery doesn’t hold the charge for more than 10 minutes.
The flashing of the BIOS got rid of the error but I’m still stuck with a battery that isn’t hold its charge.
Maybe I need to replace the battery.

If anyone has any advice that would help, please share it.

Thanks.

Here is how I solved this - hope this helps. My issue turned out to be 100% with the charger. It was frayed at the end that plugs into the computer.
All I ended up doing to solve this was 3 simple steps.
1. Get a new charger or borrow one from someone who has (2) like I did.
2. Un-install your battery by going to your control panel, system, hardware, device manager, click the + symbol next to the battery (should be the top or near the top of the tree.) the right click on the battery, then uninstall it. (No worries about doing this - the driver is in your xp or vista files). (Also, leave this app open you will need it again in a minute.)
Then take out your battery with the system on and leave it out for 5 seconds or so. Then re-insert the battery. Go back to the ‘batteries’ in the device manager, right click it and then choose ’scan for hardware changes’ it will automatically add the battery that it just found and it will begin charging it.

Yea! I am so happy, I got my laptop and charging my battery back again!

Tom

My charger seems to be in order. Not frayed anywhere on the length of the cord. I will try the un-install and re-install that you suggested and see if it works.

I agree with Tom .
I installed a new battery and the error message went away. The replacement Dell Vostro 1000 Battery 6600mAH cost £65 and I found a good vendor to purchase it from http://www.batteries4laptop.co.uk after a google search.My battery went out at about 18 months.

Great, it worked on my laptop.

Thanx a Lot

your advice worked like a charm on my vostro 1000. thank you!

your advice is great and it worked. and my vostro 1000 is good. now

thanks

tube un problema del mismo mensaje pero para una dell inspiron 1501 rev 2.6.1, descargue la actualizacion del bios 2.6.3 (que es la unica que te da)la corri desde windows se reinicio y capichi funciono. gracias este foro fue de mucha utilidad aunque esta en ingles pero traduje la pagina y me sirvio mucho gracias de nuevo
suerte!!

Jamin, Muhammad and Shahid, I’m glad that you all were able to fix your Vostros. I’m glad that I could help.

Teacher, I’m not fluent in Spanish. Could you repost your comment in English please?
Thanks.

Teacher, I have translated your comment and I have realised that you were able to solve your problem. I am glad to hear this.
Your welcome.

Teacher, he traducido su comentario y he realizado que usted podía solucionar su problema. Me alegro alegre oír esto.
Su recepción.