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    T400s: Automatic Optical Drive Power Off

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by aashburns, Nov 7, 2009.

  1. aashburns

    aashburns Newbie

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    When enabling the automatic optional drive power off option in the Power Manager, I'm seeing the power consumption of the notebook increase by ~1W. I'm running the latest drivers and software versions.

    Has anyone else had the same experience with the feature or know how to solve this?
     
    aashburns, Nov 7, 2009
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  2. arunmkumaran

    arunmkumaran Notebook Geek

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    which windows version do you have? W7 or Vista either way it should happen also what is the PM version?
     
    arunmkumaran, Nov 7, 2009
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    aashburns Newbie

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    I'm running Windows Vista with PM 3.05. Also, I can hear the optical drive powering down and the device disappearing from windows.
     
    aashburns, Nov 7, 2009
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