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    setting charge threshold has no affect help!

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by platinum717, Aug 21, 2007.

  1. platinum717

    platinum717 Notebook Guru

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    I went to thinpad power manager and set the battery to only start charging when the battery is below 70% but once I plug in the AC adapter, it starts charging even though my battery is 90% charged. I did a clean install btw so I dont know if that affects this in any way
     
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    Hover your cursor over Power Manager and tell me what it says. It should say "Charging will start when below x% and stop at x%."
     
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    charging will start when below 70% and stop at 100%
     
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    I've had the same problem, along with my display not holding its brightness setting. I believe it's an incompatibility with the Thinkpad Power Manager and Vista's Power Management/Manager. At this point there's not much you can do. Maybe uninstall both the Thinkpad Power Manager utility and ACPI Power Management driver, and reboot. Then reinstall one at a time, rebooting after each install, and see if that helps. If you have the time, you should contact Lenovo tech support about this. Maybe they'll have a fix when they release another driver/utility update. Who knows?
     
    hypertrophy, Aug 22, 2007
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