I have an Inspiron 6000, and i've noticed lately that my wifi (Dell Wireless 1370 WLAN Mini-PCI Card) has been shutting down by itself as soon as the 'low battery' alert appears (I tried it out numerous times). My wifi light is on, but the radio is disabled and I cannot enable it any other way, until I do a reboot. I checked to see if there was options that I could set or unset but no such luck.
Just to let you know why it does this. The wireless of course uses power all the time, if you battery is critically low and you system is about to shut off, it turns that off so that you can save your info before the system shuts down. If you want to disable this you can check the settings mentioned in the other post but if that does not work look in your QuickSet utility. This also has some power management settings.
as for power consumption... 1st is monitor, then comes CD-drive, then HDD and then only network.
what did I want to say with that? I dunno... too tired...
P.S. Unitech PT630 barcode scanner was discovered as good tool today.
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Posted February 1st, 2007 22:00