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    A4D win XP power management problems

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by A4Dude, Mar 4, 2007.

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    First post, I'd like to say 'hi' to everybody. :)

    I have a problem with the power management on my A4. I just reinstalled windows xp (a non-asus delivered version of XP). Now I cannot get the CPU to throttle down, stays at 1.8 GHz at all times. I first tried Notebook Hardware Control - no luck. NHC said that I didn't have a ACPI profile installed, so I tried googling for one. No luck, could find lots of them for asus laptops, none for the A4.

    Next thing I did was to remove NHC and install Power4Gear but for some strange reason it wouldn't install itself properly! Showed up in add/remove programs, everywhere else on my computer it was totally MIA. :confused: Removed it anyway.

    Now I tried to install RightMark CPU control, same problem as with NHC. CPU stays at 1.8 GHz, no idea how to get it to throttle down. My fans are roaring, CPU's at 74 degrees Celcius, user infuriated and developing a sudden urge to kick cats, roomies and little children to vent anger... please help me! :mad2:
     
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    OMG, do you suffer under the same curse as I do? Whenever I have a problem, I only just have time to ask for help before I figure it all out five minutes later? I just did! Yipee! PightMark works like a charm, I just had to enable a few features and now it does dynamic stepping like there is no tomorrow!

    (still have No Idea what caused the fubar with the other two proggies, but hey! Who cares! :rolleyes: )

    Yay!
     
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