please help - how to kill annoying "low battery" alarm

[Wigwam]

Hi

i just bought a 2nd hand laptop cos it was going cheap with the aim of using it as a portable "surfing" machine in a wireless router setup with my main machine. the world of laptops seems alien to me compared with desktop pcs!
after an hour or so when the battery gets low i get this really piercing shriek coming from the machine along with a message telling me to plug the ac adaptor in.
there is an on-screen prompt too but pressing okay doesnt nothing to the alarm [whic only goes away when said adaptop is plugged in!] and it keeps popping up again and again.

i looked in device manager and the only thing remotely related to me was something called microsoft ac battery.
in the themes section i couldnt find this alarm.
how do i modify this alarm so that i can kill it by clicking on "okay" when the warning comes on or maybe just kill the sound totally an just leave the "plug in adaptop or risk losing your work" message??

all advice greatly appreciated.
it is a "patriot" notebook on the sis630 chipset i believe with xp home on board

 

[bastula]

If you go to Control Panel, then click on Power Options, you will see the Alarms tab. Click that and change the settings according to your preferences. Hope that helps.

There is a possibility that a different system utility provided by your computer manufacturer which controls the same aspect. I have never heard that kind of sound on my laptop, which leads me to believe it might also be something you could try changing in the BIOS? Give that a shot too.

 

[Wigwam]

no alarms tab in the power section....and it is none of the sounds [even the "extreme low battery alert"] in the themes...i am at a loss
all i can think of doing is forcing the sound again and then seeing what it says is running....

 

[bastula]

What OS are you running? The older windows systems might not have that tab in power options. Have you checked your BIOS yet?

 

[Wigwam]

winxp home.
yeah i looked at the bios - it is very very basic and nothing there of note

i am abit perplexed! guess i just need to find the time to sit down with it and maybe force the alarm again and see