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Cajundohboy
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February 15th, 2005 00:00
Running on the battery...
I was wondering if anyone else had this problem. It's minor, but anyway, when I'm running my laptop off of the battery, sometimes when I move my pointer it's really herky jerky and if I'm listening to mp3 files every 3 seconds or so there will be a quick pause. When I run my laptop off the power adapter I have no problems. I have no viruses or spyware. I have looked to see what is running in the background but nothing has helped this matter. If anyone has had this little problem or any suggestions feel free to let me know what I can do. Thanks in advance.
MattFrancis
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Posted February 16th, 2005 15:00
Its an issue regardin the Dell Power Saving program that is linked to your Power Management control panel, set it to "Always on" or something of the sort to where there is no power conservation when on battery, simply because playing MP3 files takes up alot of system resources.Cajundohboy
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Posted February 16th, 2005 23:00
Thanks for the replies, I appreciate them.
funtoupgrade
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Posted February 15th, 2005 02:00
Generally when running on battery laptop power management comes into play and the CPU runs at a slower speed (speedstep). This can be turned off in the BIOS setup if desired so that the laptop will run at full speed while on battery. Of course, this will exhaust the battery faster.
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