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    Manually power off the optical drive

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by owkia, Sep 1, 2008.

  1. owkia

    owkia Notebook Guru

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    Is there any way to do this manually? The power settings do it after a while, but I figure if I can do it manually right away I might as well save that little bit of power.
     
    owkia, Sep 1, 2008
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  2. D3X

    D3X the robo know it all

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    Techinically, you can power off the Optical drive via Device Manager by disabling the driver. However, I doubt that you'll even see a difference on your overall battery usage since if your not using the Optical drive, it'll be in dormant standby mode that uses very little power.
     
    D3X, Sep 1, 2008
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