HP Compaq 6715s won't boot on battery after BIOS update

Hello!
I updated the bios of my HP Compaq 6715s with the latest version F.0E I downloaded from HP support site.
Everything went fine, but now it won't boot on battery alone anymore. It just flashes amber light on power indicator and shuts down. If the charger is connected and later disconnected when it starts loading Windows, everything is fine.
Please help, what should I do?

Hi:
You can try performing a hard reset of the notebook in hopes that it will solve the problem.
Here is the link to the instructions for this procedure.
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c01684768&prodT...
If that doesn't work, I'm afraid something went kerflooey with your BIOS udpate.
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