> Brilliant. Clicking OK - displays the same box over and over until the battery is >10%, I'm not interested in ordering a replacement battery for this, it's a toy at this point.
oh software people.
I'd be figuring out how I can jump some leads with the "right" voltage to the battery's leads to see if I can fool it (and hopefully not explode the leads), though might not work with OP's weird 255%/100%/0% simultaneous battery level reporting.
A good way to make a lithium battery explode/set on fire if you don't know what you are doing. So maybe it's good that us software people don't do that.
Dell BIOS updates usually have a switch to override the battery check. I remember /force working on some models, and then they changed it to something more obscure
The L502X had the best keyboard and speakers of any laptop I've ever owned. It still has plenty of horsepower under Window 7 too, but everything has deprecated support for that OS. Maybe one day will install a flavour of Linux on it. It's too good to let go to e-waste!
oh software people.
I'd be figuring out how I can jump some leads with the "right" voltage to the battery's leads to see if I can fool it (and hopefully not explode the leads), though might not work with OP's weird 255%/100%/0% simultaneous battery level reporting.
The binary supports "-force", "/forceall", "/forceit" and "/forcetype", amongst other command-line options.
So it looks like your memory is good!
IMO, ThinkPads from the same release year (T420 etc.) equipped with the NMB keyboard had a far better layout and feel.
...and did you get any new features or bug fixes with the new BIOS version? My bet is you probably lost undervolting instead, due to "security".
Fixes: - Fixed issue when system resumes from the Hibernate mode automatically after upgrading to Windows 8 operating system.
Enhancements: - Enhanced the support on Windows 8 operating system.