I just aquired a Dell latitude D-800 laptop. With windows xp home edition. I have to run it all the time on AC. What I can not figure out is why the laptop will not charge the battery. Under Power Optons Properites is a tab called "Power Meter". It shows "Power Status" with AC power on and total battey power remainging: "Unknown". Under that is a picture of TWO batteries. I have only one battery in the laptop BUT both show "Not Present". How can a battery be Not Present" when I can see it clearly connected to the laptop.
I have not any idea how to fix this> I can only presume that I got this laptop because the motherboard must be bad? Any ideas any one?