Re: Battery Power Causes Laptop's Performance to Decline

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"Tom Scales" <tjscales@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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How much memory?

Anyway, this is actually normal. It is done to preserve battery life.
Turn off Speedstep in the BIOS and adjust your power settings to Full,
or something like it, when on battery and the problem will go away.

And you'll get about 1/2 the battery life.



This question is eerily similar to the poster below who had added a 2gb
SODIMM to a V1000 (when specs only allow for 1gb/2gb max capacity).

It just appears the poster has had a name change.

right. and he/she dismissed my previous suggestion. but let him/her
waste time with all the other suggestions. speedstep or any other power
saving measure should not result in a delay of a typed letter from
appearing on the screen. the cause of this behavior is because of what i
previously mentioned.



I dropped the thread when the poster dismissed exceeding the recommended
RAM specifications.

Further, running a budget system on (what I consider to be) off-brand RAM
in the wrong size......

It's obvious to me that the poster has it all figured out and doesn't need
any assistance from me.


good point. i missed that. i thought he/she took out the original 512mb
module and opted just for the 2gb one (system total of 2gb not 2.5gb), but i
re-read it and think you are right. some people are their own worst enemy.
like my suggestion (for the same problem that took me ages to solve), it
would be a very simple thing to test. but i guess there is no fun in
actually solving the problem, then there would be nothing left to talk about
since windows machines are so trouble free.


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