ACPI MOBILE Meter Problem

same thing happened to me, now when I try and run it, i get ERROR failed to communicate with acpi driver.

I don't know exactly what I did, that would prevent the communication. I did install spybot for the first time and mess around with that, but I have uninstalled spybot and system restored and it still will not work.

Interested if there is an easy fix from someone that knows more about this than I?

DAMNIT WHY CAN'T I GET IT TO WORK!

I've checked in BIOS, all the ACPI settings (very few) make no difference. The program that once worked so well STILL CANNOT COMMUNICATE WITH ACPI DRIVER!!!

ARGH WHY NOT!
Administrator user settings - so thats fine.
Under device manager > System devices > All the ACPI devices seem fine.
including
ACPI Thermal Zone
System devices
on Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System

This device is working properly.

But in the Device usage box, I cannot enable nor disable it. Is this the same for everyone for which Mobmeter works?

ACPI Thermal Zone, Driver version 5.1.2600.0

Are there any updates on this that anyone knows about.

Further note
In system information>System Drivers
Name: acpi
Description: Microsoft ACPI Driver
File: ....
Type: Kernel Driver
Started: Yes
Start Mode: Boot
State: Running
Status: OK
Error Control: Normal
Accept Pause: No
Accept Stop: Yes

Also I can remember installing/uninstalling TweakXP during the general time it stopped working. But I think doing system restore would restore anything that mucked up.

BAH... don't worry. Northing can be done.

Tweak XP destroyed my ACPI registry, and though tweakxp it DID create a backup of the registry before it installed, but Tweak XP IS SO STUPID AND IGNORANT it created ("exported") this backup as a .reg file, which is actually completely useless for restoring the whole registry, as Windows processes uses some of the keys preventing those important keys from being edited.

Thus, you get a message saying, "cannot import registry. Some keys are opened by the system and processes". Off course doing this completely destroys your registry, as half the registry is able to be edited and half isn't, making a mess that is unable to boot, luckily booting up Windows in Last known working configuration mode fixes this.

So I decided to go through and manually edit all of the keys that had been screwed up by tweakxp and inable to restore backup registry. Unfortunately half the windows registry seems to be related to ACPI so it is useless trying. There are a gazillion keys that need to be edited.

Sooo... there is nothing I can do. Luckily mobilemeter is the only thing that isn't working. All my power management stuff is working fine. So I think I'll leave it as it is.

I will accept that I am unable to use mobile meter until i reinstall windows. Which will not be for quite a while since I never have the time to reinstall everything.

Also, another lesson learnt, ASSIGN MORE MEMORY TO SYSTEM RESTORE. Previously I had it set to 1GB. So by the time all the dust had settled, I no longer had a system restore point far enough back in time to restore all the stuff changed by Tweak XP and everything else I did in those couple of days. In fact, in changing settings and tweaking xp with tweakxp, tweakxp created so many restore points that it chewed through all 1GB of restore space in about 2 days, killing pretty much all the system restore points before the orignal installation. Oh WELL!!!

As for krillz's problem, it must be different. Because if I reinstall Windows XP, I am sure that all the ACPI settings in the registry will be set at default, which for my Sager Mobilemeter can work.