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    Power Plans

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by lineS of flight, Sep 2, 2010.

  1. lineS of flight

    lineS of flight Notebook Virtuoso

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    Hi...

    I created a power plan in Lenovo's Power Manager. But when I turn off the machine and turn it on again, I have to manually start the powerplan for it to take effect. When the machine turns on the power plan defaults to its original settings and does not apply my custom plan. I thought this was something that was applied automatically when the machine is turned on.

    Am I doing something wrong?
     
    lineS of flight, Sep 2, 2010
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    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    Are you going into Power Manager and hitting apply?
     
    ZaZ, Sep 2, 2010
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    lineS of flight Notebook Virtuoso

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    Yes. I also updated Power Manager to the 3.30 version.
     
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    lineS of flight Notebook Virtuoso

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    One other question: Does Lenovo Power Manager always override the Win 7 power manager?

    Thanks
     
    lineS of flight, Sep 3, 2010
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    lead_org Purveyor of Truth

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    From my personal experience the Lenovo Thinkvantage Power Manager always take precedence over Win OS power manager.
     
    lead_org, Sep 3, 2010
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    lineS of flight Notebook Virtuoso

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    The after making the changes in Power Manager, why don't the setting stick? Why do they change ever time I restart the machine?
     
    lineS of flight, Sep 3, 2010
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    lead_org Purveyor of Truth

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    i don't really know..
     
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    Did you create a new one or try to modify a built in one?
     
    infinus, Sep 4, 2010
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    lineS of flight Notebook Virtuoso

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    Created a new one. And the problem (if you can call it that) still persists.
     
    lineS of flight, Sep 4, 2010
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    Which settings are changing? All of them or certain ones?
     
    infinus, Sep 5, 2010
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    lineS of flight Notebook Virtuoso

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    Only the screen brightness. I try to keep it a few notches below max...around 3/4 of the way up, but after I reboot the system, it always goes back to the max level. I have ot either go into Power Manager and then reset it, or do it through Windows.
     
    lineS of flight, Sep 5, 2010
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    Ah, ok. Screen brightness retaining is tied to your video card drivers. I've had much better success using newer drivers then what Lenovo offers. Go to laptopvideo2go for downloadable drivers and modified inf files so you can install them. Nvidia's newest mobile driver is version 258.96.
     
    infinus, Sep 7, 2010
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    lineS of flight Notebook Virtuoso

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    Hey...thanks. Last evening there was a Systems Update from Lenovo. There was a Graphics driver update, which I installed and since then it seems to be working fine. I have no idea how the thing got fixed, but it is!

    The whole reason this came up is because I have just discovered the joys of dimming my screen. Odd isn't it!
     
    lineS of flight, Sep 7, 2010
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