I have this notebook I bought from Fry's in summer 07. It's called Great Quality NX-L515. It's got an AMD Sempron 3200+ (1.6GHz) processor, 1GB RAM & has a 15.4" screen. The notebook came pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Basic but it was working way too slow so I downgraded to Windows XP Home Edition SP3. With Vista I used to get a good 2.5 - 3 hours of battery life but with XP I can barely squeeze out 1.5 hours of battery life. I've installed NHC & set it to 'battery optimized' & powerplay settings have been set to 'balanced' on high battery & 'optimal battery life' on low battery (which is when it drops below 30%). I should be able to get at least 2 hours of battery life without much tweaking, shouldn't I? Can someone help me understand why my battery life has degraded so much?
I had to install the drivers from omegadrivers.net because the drivers from the ATI website didn't work & I've not been able to find any other drivers. Should I uninstall these drivers & try to get drivers off windows update instead?
Thanks for all the help.
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No matter what, XP is crappy for battery life. Especially home edition. If anything, it was made for desktops in mind.
Remember, this OS was made in like 2001, a time when everyone having laptops over desktops was unheard of. -
Unfortunately, that's the way it is. Vista has better power management than XP. It's like that for all laptop brands and models
Battery life half after switching to XP
Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by manu08, Dec 24, 2008.