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How to extend battery life on V2010us

post #1 of 3
2/26/05 at 9:56am
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Hello all,
Is there a way to extend the battery life on a V2010us? I'm currently getting about 2-3hours with brightness at about the mid point and with WIFI on.

The laptop has a celeron M in it so it doesn't have as good as power saving features as P-M.

Is there a way to decrease the FSB of the laptop to conserve power?

The only other options i can think of are the 12-cell battery (which i'd rather not pay the ~$120 for) and ripping apart my new toy to put in a P-M (if it will even work the chipset reads as 855 with intel's chipset utility)

thanks for any info,
Bob
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post #2 of 3
2/26/05 at 12:45pm
I guess you are getting pretty good battery life with your current setting and given that the C-M doesnt have the power saving features of the P-M. You could use and underclocking program like Clockgen (use at your own risk). I have not used it on my V2000 but works beautifully on my AMD based machine.It may not work on your machine.

I just got my V2000 just 2 days ago...not tinkered with it yet.

Have you tried setting the power level to max battery and turning everything down to the lowest levels.
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post #3 of 3
3/9/05 at 5:19am
open your laptop, take out your CM, throw it in the garbage, buy a respectable PM (1.8?) and throw that in, reassemble, turn on, instant better battery life
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