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Is it dying?

post #1 of 11
6/17/04 at 3:28pm
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I've started to notice that as soon as i take out my power cable, my lappy seems to slow down significantly. Has anyone else experienced this? I'd like to add that I am using speedswith XP to keep my lappy on full throttle.
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post #2 of 11
6/17/04 at 3:34pm
It don't think it's dying

if it was a battery, you laptop would just work less(time) but not less powerful

If it was a laptop it would be the same no matter what!
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post #3 of 11
6/17/04 at 3:40pm
it slows down to conserve power.
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post #4 of 11
6/18/04 at 2:11am
Note that even if you have Speedswitch set to max on battery, that does not fully solve the dilemma. In fact the Video card also has a power saving feature that throttles down its clockspeed on battery to conserve power too. So set that to max on battery as well as Speedswitch and then you should be hooning like you're plugged in.
stu
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post #5 of 11
6/18/04 at 3:39am
"Hooning"?
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post #6 of 11
6/18/04 at 3:51am
Going fast. Damn "language barrier"
stu
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post #7 of 11
6/18/04 at 5:49am
Kinda like "tackling the living suitcase out of someone"?
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post #8 of 11
6/18/04 at 6:00am
Well its "belt the living suitcase" out of someone to get the right image, but yeah
stu
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post #9 of 11
6/18/04 at 10:21am
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Hmmm, that's funny, I disabled powerplay in my gpu settings, systems seems to walking a new walk now, it ain't dying.

Stu-
Were you talking about Powerplay?
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post #10 of 11
6/18/04 at 10:59am
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Originally Posted by Rao Hamid
Hmmm, that's funny, I disabled powerplay in my gpu settings, systems seems to walking a new walk now, it ain't dying.

Stu-
Were you talking about Powerplay?
what do u mean?


well i always keep everything on high.(in the Powerplay in the GPU settings)

Does anyone know where i can find the definition of the powerschence.

Home/Office = ?
Portable/Laptop = changes depending on what u are doing.
Presentation = ?
Always On = your laptop is running at max speed, and everything is set to never
Minimal Power Management = ?
Max Battery = the laptop says at one clock speed, which is 600mhz
Maxium Battery (Quickset) = ?
Maxium Performance (Quickset) = ?
Network DisableD (Quickset) = ?
Presentation (Quickset) = ?

By the way what is the advantage if any of having quickset installed

Correct me if im wrong.

I seen my laptop go to 300 mhz how does this happen and how can i put it o do this. This would be cool if i can just switch it to like 300 mhz when i want. anyway does anyone have the correct definision to the different Power Schemes.
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post #11 of 11
6/18/04 at 11:16am
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Originally Posted by Rao Hamid
Hmmm, that's funny, I disabled powerplay in my gpu settings, systems seems to walking a new walk now, it ain't dying.

Stu-
Were you talking about Powerplay?
Yeah, that's what I was talking about, the video power settings are called Powerplay. In hindsight I should have been more detailed and given you directions and the proper name, sorry.

stu
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