no, everything with the battery was working 100% minutes before the clean install. clearly, some functionality with the battery was lost. there has to be software out there to fix it. must i reinstall to factory settings to get the BATTERY to work correctly? seems ridiculous.
Something like battery driver could easily be hidden in with 8 other motherboard hardware drivers under a single package labelled something unhelpful like "System Drivers" or something :/
And yes, your battery charge controller is just another piece of hardware like the touchpad or anything else that needs a specific driver for the specific hardware. Though usually will just barely work with built-in bare bones drivers till you can get the real one installed.
Sounds like you got it fixed, please let us know how.
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