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    PWR Management, battery questions. Malibal P150HM 6990m. Is it possible to turn GPU Fan off, set to 0 RPM?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Chango99, Oct 2, 2012.

  1. Chango99

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    So, I've been taking my laptop to class more often and obviously, these things aren't the most mobile computers, but they are still laptops. So, I've been trying to tweak it to the lowest possible consumption settings that I can set it at and only use what I need.

    However, here are my issues/questions:

    1. Fan Issues - Edit, after some research, it seems the GPU in Clevo MOBOs do not work well with GPU software, on the fan side of things anyway. Monitoring is wrong as well as any options to adjust fan speeds. Can try to set 0% or 100%, but no change. Fan speed on GPU only fluctuates with temperature tables. I read up a bit and seems newest HWinfo should be able to read the fan speed %? I installed. Doesn't report RPM at all and it just reported 30% whole time even when I can hear the fans clearly getting louder. I'm not sure about EC versions that were talked about. BIOS version is 4.6.4. Is it possible at all for the fans to go completely off and switch to passive cooling while on battery? Or is it not capable of running purely on passive cooling?

    2. Battery Manager and HDD Disable/Sleep/Spin Down in W7 - I have an SSD on the main drive, and an HDD on the optical drive. I set battery manager to have the HDD sleep after 1 minute (min value), but it's not happening. Is there a way to have that drive completely disabled when on battery?

    3. What's the power management thing that Clevo provides from the hotkeys driver do? - The hotkey drivers from Clevo also happen to give us an icon on the taskbar tray, with the only information given being the version number--3.3020 in my case-- and the right click option opening up power conservation modes: Performance | Balanced | Energy Star. It is not clear what each option does.

    4. Suggestions to improve battery life? - Aside from what I've tried, and using minimal processes, what other options that aren't very visible?
     
    Chango99, Oct 2, 2012
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