installed XP on my laptop but now i've lost my power saving and battery monitoring features

[odog]

anyone else in the same boat?

it's a POS compaq 1201T(cel766/128mb) i got from work.....

now it thinks it forever on ac power, now matter what.

 

[corkyg]

Each laptop has its own proprietary drivers and means for those functions. You need to contact Compaq and get their XP upgrade stuff . . . sometimes you can download it. If you did a clean install, that is not good on a laptop unless you have all those things pre-arranged.

 

[jschuk]

You will probably have a hard time finding XP support right now, but if it is available, try the W2K power utilities. That is what I did with my Toshiba 490XCDT laptop, and it works great.