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    Managing power on W7J using Vista.. upgraded to vista last night

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by AMSgwp, Oct 22, 2008.

  1. AMSgwp

    AMSgwp Notebook Enthusiast

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    So I ifnally made the leap and reformatted and upgraded to Vista. The only lingering problem is that my processor seems to be in overdrive and the fan constantly spins up to full blast. The Power4Gear utility is installed and I set it to use minimum 5 percent or max 100% when plugged in or on battery power but I can't tell if it is working.

    The reason I can't tell if it is working is because I set it to put screen brightness to 50% when NOT plugged in and the brightness doesn't change when I unplug it.

    Does anyone have any suggestions? I tried Notebook Hardware Control(what I used on xp) but I kept getting errors saying it couldn't change CPU speed or cpu clock or something. So I uninstalled and tried to get default Vista with P4G working.
     

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  2. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Did you install the ATK drivers (or better yet the entire ATK combo of applications)?

    I can suggest RMClock instead of NHC.

    Also, make sure the GPU downclocks nicely, as well. The W7J is a hot cookie if it's anything like the W7S... :) needs all the power management it can get.
     
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