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    PowerManager or different utility

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by systemfehler, Feb 22, 2011.

  1. systemfehler

    systemfehler Notebook Geek

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    Hi!

    It seems PowerManager 3.40 doesn't show the energy consumption (eg. 25W) anymore. Is there any other tool for that or a way to get the information back? I kind of liked it to tune my energy settings and see what they actually do.
     
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    systemfehler Notebook Geek

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    Thank you for the answer but it seems the tool is not really accurate. When changing from max brightness to 0 the discharge information changes from 37.x mW to 37.y mW - that can't be.

    Maybe my power management driver is messed up - I also can set brightness in those steps:

    1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
     
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    My x100e did funky things with that before.

    My BatteryBar seems spot on... -10mW(Rate of discharge) of a 40mWh battery left and Power Management says 4 hours till empty. Who knows though.
     
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