Re: Battery Power Causes Laptop's Performance to Decline

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:18:37 -0600, Journey <journey@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:12:22 -0600, RnR <rnrtexas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:24:09 -0500, "Christopher Muto"
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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.



What makes you so sure that other suggestions are wasteful and yours
is the only one right?

I'm not so sure your suggestion is correct but I don't like Nortons
either due to its quirks so I can't say you're wrong either. I still
favor the lack of ram or checking processes first.

The OP should weed thru each suggestion and hopefully one of them will
work or solve the problem.

nobody knows for sure, but when someone asks a question and is given only
one solution that actually is know (albeit not well know) to be the
culprit
to produce the exact symptom they describe and they ignore it then it
seems
pretty clear that the problem goes beyond the computer itself. none of
the
suggestions other than using more ram than the system is specified as to
work with (presumably that windows is capable of working with as dell does
not sell this machine with any other os - so using unix is no test as to
how
windows will behave), or my suggestion has a shot at solving this. the op
dismissed both. other suggestions such as speedstep are logical, but even
a
pentium ii laptop running xp with just 256mb ram does not have the symptom
of a delay in characters appearing after being typed. you know windows,
you
can waste the rest of your life trying 'things' and get nowhere, so if
someone actually wants to solve a problem the thing to do is start with
the
obvious... such as not installing more memory than it is know to work with
and look into restricted zones list, each of which are pretty simple
things
to check, and the zones list as being a known (albeit not well know)
source
of the precise things to try before grasping at straws for an fixes. but
what do i care if this person wants to waste their time and yours... if
they
want to be illogical then nobody can help them and they can't help
themselves.


Well maybe we differ on the approach or solution but since I didn't
follow the last similar post/thread that Stew referred to, I will have
to take your word for it and agree that if a person wants to act like
an idiot, then no one can help him/her. And speaking for myself and
likely others, I'm not here to show how much or little I know nor to
waste my time with trolls but rather to try to help (if I think I can)
those that actually want to be helped. Of course I can be wrong and
I too can learn from others.

Not to argue with you or Stew but let's hope this poster is not a
troll but just not articulate with his/her problems. I guess I'd like
to think positive in this newsgroup :) .

i am just here to have my suggestions ignored. seems to be working.



Chris don't be so hard on yourself. I know you are pretty good at
solving a lot of problems here and a frequent contributor. Frankly
sometimes I feel like you where I feel ignored especially after either
giving a post a lot of thought or just writing a long post in reply to
someone's problem and it gets no reply or ignored.

Remember this is the internet so you can't take anything personal even
if directed at you ( I too have to take this advice ) !! Yeah I know
at times it's tough advice to swallow.

Hey RnR -- you're right about not taking it personal. I like the
acronym QTIP -- "Quit Taking it Personally".

Still, there are many people who post asking for support, receive
support, and never even follow up with a single post acknowledging the
support or posting the resolution.

I think posting a resolution is important because that's how people
learn and because the resolution would show up in search engines.


I couldn't agree more with you on that. I've even asked people to do
this but I think few listen in those cases.

Excellent point Journey !!
.

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