Vista not showing ac status..

I have an alienware 7700 with new 1.5gb ram, new opteron 180, a new
battery and motherboard.. basically everything is new.

I just replaced the processor from an older athlon 64 3000 to the
opteron 180.

The power meter will not switch to ac status, even tho the battery is
charging and the power light (hardware) is showing ac is good. I am
unable to run the windows performance tool as it says it cannot run on
battery. Everything worked fine before the processor change, AMD
indicates there is no possibility the issue is caused by the processor
change. I tried reinstalling the battery and ac drivers in device
manager to no avail.
I know know opteron supports acpi as there are many others running
opteron based laptops.

Please help.

Thanks, Tim


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Alienware7700x64

Anyone?
:sarc:


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Alienware7700x64