Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:35:04 -0400 From: "Gennadiy Tsygan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] 100CT battery life
I am running WinXP and is able to stop hard drive after one minute. Yesterday I measured current consumption by L110 in different modes. I will post all results later, but the most astonishing finding was that when I span down my 12GB Fujitsu, current went UP by 0.02A! I have not come up with an explanation for this. May be I should try to find a datasheet for the drive. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 2:46 AM Subject: Re: [LIB] 100CT battery life > 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 > ************************************************************** > > > ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
