Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 06:45:12 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] 100CT battery life
>From: "John Musielewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I always set my hard drive to spin down after a minute. I haven't figured >out yet how to set the standby timeout to less than 10 minutes. I'd like to >set it to about 5. It seems like I'm one of a certain lucky group of lucky people who are able to get the Windows Power Management settings to work. You're supposed to be able to set Standby to kick in as fast as 1 minute. But WPM is really weird. It lets you set Standby to the fastest setting of 1 minute, LCD shutdown to 1 minute, but the quickest setting to shut down the HDD is 3 minutes. Guess the HDD can spin until it hibernates. I don't know if I want to risk playing with it to find out. I've always set LCD and HDD shutdown timeouts to less than the Standby (maybe just superstition), and have had success at all settings. For: Standby, LCD shutdown, and HDD shutdown times in powered mode, I've had these settings working well for a few years: 30 15 20 15 10 10 10 5 5 5 1 3 And an "Always On" = Never Never Never I seldom looked or changed the settings in Toshiba Power Saver until recently when I was trying to change the power-up mode in BIOS to get the L70 to remain in Standy forever without hibernating. But none of my changes would stick. I learned the BIOS setting was being overridden by the settings in the TPS in Windows. So changing the powerup mode there to 'hibernation' there, and time to Standby to 'Unlimited' got things working. I try to tote the AC adaptor with me and power the system with it as much as possible, so I've not used the battery as much as some people. But I always feel it's nice to have the TPS settings for battery power there to at least dim the LCD to save power. I don't know if WPM and TPS work together successfuly, or fight each other, perhaps causing other people's problems. But I've left all the AC and Battery power settings in TPS alone, even though the HDD and CPU can be controlled in there. I also have the Amnhlt CPU idler installed to, and always wonder what kind of dance it's doing with TPS's CPU setup. Matt Hanson (Shel) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
