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    HELP!! my powerplay will not work HELP!!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Lite, Sep 23, 2007.

  1. Lite

    Lite Notebook Deity

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    Under ati catalyst control center powerplay always detects my system as plugged in and wont even change the power play settings , so now my GPU is always running at clock speed when i want to udnerclock it to save battery life , its a substantial amount of battery were talking (2-3 hours extra i have a ati x1400) im not sure how to tell which version of catylist control center i have but uner about it says 1.2.2334.37172

    My system battery icon changes to plugged in when in add the power supply but ati control center never changes... on a few occasinas ive taken out the battery while the system is plugged in and that may have confused it.. Im noy sure of any other info i could give you...
     
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    Hmm , well if anyone encouters this problem again here is how to fix it: Uninstall all drivers for graphics card and all ati tools...
    reboot.
    re-install eveyrthing...
    DONT REBOOT YET..
    take out battery and power on laptop with psu in...
    Now reboot.
    start up catylist control center
    insert battery
    FIXED!!!
     
    Lite, Sep 23, 2007
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  3. mattireland

    mattireland It used to be the iLand..

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    LOL. I'd visited this page earlier to research your problem, was going to tell you EXACTLY this and when I got back to this page you had already answered. Oh well.
     
    mattireland, Sep 23, 2007
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