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SYMPTOMSAfter you install Windows 95, you may notice that none of the Advanced Power Management (APM) features were installed, or that there is no battery meter. CAUSESome computers and BIOS revisions have known incompatibilities with the APM 1.1 specification. You may be running Windows 95 on such a computer. RESOLUTIONAlthough the hardware suspend functions of your computer should still function correctly, you cannot use the Windows 95 APM features. MORE INFORMATION
Different levels of APM are turned off by Windows 95 when it detects an
incompatible BIOS.
Windows 95 turns off power status polling (so you do not see a battery
meter) on the following computers:
Windows 95 uses APM 1.0 mode on the following computers:
The following IBM ThinkPad computers support APM 1.1:
The following IBM ThinkPad computers work with Windows 95, but only APM
BIOS 1.0 is supported:
For information about the differences between APM 1.0 and APM 1.1, please
see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q119599 Differences Between Using APM 1.0 and APM 1.1The ASUS PCI/I P55SP4 motherboard with a SiS 5511/5512/5513 chip set and an AWARD BIOS has been known to exhibit similar problems. The battery meter may appear on the taskbar when it should not. ASUS states that this was fixed with Plug and Play BIOS version 0110 (11/21/95) for revision 1.2 and 1.3 motherboards. Revision 1.4 motherboards have this fix using Plug and Play BIOS version 0303 (11/21/95). Please contact ASUS for information about BIOS updates. Additional query words: pnp
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