Dell inspiron 1501 says battery not recognized at boot up. but it seems to be working fine. how do i deal with pressing "any key" to continue boot up?

Enter BIOS by pressing F2 or DEL or F10 (try all), and see if there is a Function key option. Change it, save and exit. If everything else is working fine, you can also try to push and hold Fn key and then press a function key.

the Dell AC adapter has a sensing pin so the bios can determine the wattage of the adapter. If the system cannot ID the adapter, the battery charger circuit is disabled. You'll need a functional DELL ac adapter to get the battery to charge

hello

I suggest you a few steps to solve your problem.

• remove the charger and press the power button till all residue power is radiated.
• then connect the charger and charge the battery fully and try booting the system.
• if this don't work check the output of your charger and see if it is working fine.
• if it is working fine then remove the battery and connect the charger and try starting the system.
• if it works then there are two things possible.

1. battery gone.
2. IC responsible for charging is gone.

i hope you can figure out the problem through this.

Thank you

This should have a "battery check" button on the battery itself. Remove the battery and press the button. If it reveals that the battery is not fully charged, or you cannot get it to take full charge, perhaps all that you need is a new battery. If the battery is failing the check the system makes on it at boot, it won't.

you have just tired everything. i think your mainboard is broken down. you need to take it to the service.

When you first boot go into the bios by pressing F2 and change to boot sequence to boot off of the cd-rom. Your going to need the Dell Password override cd. Find that and stick it in the drive. Boot up the system and as soon as it says press any key to continue, press any key and it should boot up into a dell windows restore screen and it will ask you if you want to restore the laptop, choose yes and go thru the prompts and it should allow you to restore the laptop to factory defaults.

If you have problems let me know and we can try another way.

You mentioned trying a different battery, try a different AC adapter.

When plugging in the ac adapter to the wall, see if the POWER LED comes on on the adapter, then when you connect it to the computer, see if the LED stays on.

If the issue occurs with both AC adapters (No battery installed) then the motherboard has failed. If one ac adapter works but the other doesn't then the adapter is bad

When I turn on my Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop, I get this:

Warning: the battery cannot be identified.

This system will be unable to charge this battery.

Press Any Key to Continue.

Press <F2> 2 times to enter SETUP.

Press <F12> and Any Key to enter Boot Menu.
what should i do?

sounds like a dead cell in battery try replacment battery batterys can still show good even if they have a dead cell