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post #41 of 56
11/23/03 at 2:42pm
Look up CLI Bench for a quick little benchmark to see the effects of throttling.

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post #42 of 56
11/23/03 at 8:57pm
I'll triple-check, Henrik, but I do not recall seeing anything "Phoenix" on the boot screen nor in the BIOS setup screens. I'll give it another look.

-myrkat
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post #43 of 56
11/23/03 at 9:50pm
Thread Starter 
You are correct, myrkat. I downloaded your bios and looked into it. I could see old traces in the bios from Systemsoft BIOS, check this link. So, it appears as Insyde were the supplier of both the system bios and keyboard bios, but Clevo changed to Phoenix regarding the system bios. Clevo D800P / Sager 8890 use Phoenix bios. You still use Insydes keyboard bios, though.
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post #44 of 56
12/18/03 at 12:35am
Henrik,

When I try to open batterysaver.exe I get the following error:

TVICHW32.DLL was not found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem.

I am running a 5660 with XP pro 512 ram. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Brad
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post #45 of 56
12/18/03 at 2:30am
Extract the files to a folder and then open the EXE if it came in a ZIP file.
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post #46 of 56
12/18/03 at 5:52am
Thread Starter 
CincyZJ, Have you installed the device driver the instructions tells you about?
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post #47 of 56
12/18/03 at 8:58pm
Henrik,

I read the entire thread after I posted in haste . I found the reference to the free demo of the device driver I was lacking. I'm gonna try it tonight and maybe even RTFM Thanks again for your hard work on this project.

Brad
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post #48 of 56
12/27/03 at 11:01pm
Quick question. I only want to install the battery saver app for my 8886. Can this be disabled/uninstalled and how? Thanks
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post #49 of 56
1/16/04 at 6:21pm
unfortunately, this utility doesn't seem to make any difference unless you're maxing the processor out at a given setting. if i set it to 12.5% and do word processing, i get basically the same battery life as if it was at 100%. if i'm running SETI or playing a game, which uses the CPU at 100% all the time, then turning it down makes a difference, but of course then you're really feeling the performance penalty. all it does is keep your computer from doing things quickly, which of course increases battery life (but also means it takes longer to do things).

for tasks that are purely CPU limited, you're probably better off running at 100% because then you're not wasting power running the drives, screen, etc while the CPU plods along. the only thing i see it as being useful for is if you're gaming and are willing to accept a lower framerate in return for more play-time (and it works pretty well for this, as long as you've got framerate to spare).
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post #50 of 56
1/23/04 at 6:21pm
Hi Henrik
I tested this saver. Lowest rating didn´t affect the fan spinning time in any way. But it did affect performance incredible. (PCMark02 from 6350 to 650.......)

By the way, I downclocked GPU as much as possible with powerstrip, it didn´t affect the fan eigher.

So sorry, I tried to read all the stuff, but as I´m German I have difficulties to read everything, that means I do have to invest a lot of time. Please forgive me when I didn´t realize something.
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post #51 of 56
3/5/04 at 12:38am

Save Battery Util

Can you post the link to download the batt util for the 5680?
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Originally Posted by Henrik
I hope you like it

see this post.
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post #52 of 56
3/5/04 at 7:34pm
Perhaps i'm missing the whole point, but I have failed to find any posts telling us how much time the battery saver *saves*! It's great that you have all found out how much the temperatures change, but i'd really like to know how long you can get a sager to run w/ this app.
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post #53 of 56
3/10/04 at 6:36pm
Where can I download the battery saver application. I have tried the links, but they all seem to be dead.
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post #54 of 56
3/10/04 at 6:59pm
Found it

http://www.edi-logistik.se/Batterysaver.zip

also need this file

http://www.edi-logistik.se/tvichw50.zip
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post #55 of 56
1/11/08 at 7:56pm
Anyone still have these files??
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post #56 of 56
2/11/08 at 3:07am
ALll links seem to be dead.
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