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I was really hopeful that it would, but no dice. Now, here is where I have to be honest with all you folk and tell you that in my case, this did not fix the problem. I check the netbook that was in for service with the battery problem and found that it was actually on version 3301(!), so I upgraded to the latest version as of yesterday which was 3310. The information I got specifically referenced netbooks running on firmware (BIOS) versions 3305, and then suggested upgrading to the (at that time) latest version of 3309. However, as I read more, it seemed that a bug in the netbook firmware had cropped up and would cause the BIOS to stop recognizing the fact that there was a battery in the machine at all. Again, initial thought was a run on bad batteries. What I found was that many other folk out there in the great wide open Internet were having similar problems. Before contacting Acer to get a replacement battery, I did some research just to be thorough and also to get options for replacement batteries in case a longer life battery was desired.

Here’s the neat part of this and the reason for this post. You know, a bad cell, and open connection, whatever it is it rendered the battery useless much quicker than it should have. The logical assumption of course was that this customer simply had a dud for a battery. Now, the little netbook ran fine when plugged into the AC adapter, so that ruled that out as being bad. In fact, the battery was non-existant, it wouldn’t charge or give an error light or really … anything. One of these customers suddenly had a problem with the battery not charging. Especially considering the price, but now I will get back to the topic at hand. I’ll post a review later maybe, it really is a great machine. I liked them so much I even got one for myself, and I too am very pleased with this little dynamo. I have several customers that have purchased and been very happy with the Acer Aspire series of Netbooks. Greetings all, I’d like to share with you an interesting tidbit of information that I ran across recently.