[n100] power management and battery time

[grzegorz]

Hello,

I recently sold my old Asus and bought Lenovo N100. I like the design - especially the keyboard. My model hasn't got Windows pre-installed - I got my own license. I simply downloaded ThinkVantage System Update and it downloaded drivers. Now, everything is working fine but I don't like or understand two things:
1) power management software - is there any? There is a Windows control panel feature called "Power management" but this is far to low - i wish i could do some profiles with ability to change max speed of cpu and brightness (so i could decrease it if running on battery) - i'm suprised it didn't come with drivers - my 2 years asus had it alredy (profiles like office when cpu was set to 400 MHz or something),
2) battery time remaining - it didn't show me remaining time. I also downloaded BatteryInfo software as mentioned in other thread but it says "remaining time could not be retrieved". Is anything can be done to retrieve it? I don't like calculations like "25% is half and hour with wifi but 45 minutes without it"

Sorry for my bad english - hope you can read it
Best regards,

[truk]

The battery gauge has become quite an issue with these laptops. If you can find a model on your motherboard (sorry I can't help with that, I don't have one myself) you should be able to use speedfan to do CPU throttling. Otherwise, these computers should do some throttling by themselves. If you find a good gauge will you post it, I have a friend looking for one.

BTW, speedfan is located at the site below, and I am not affiliated with them (this is the second time I've mentioned it)

http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

[eclektiklp]

Hello, I own a N100 too (0768). I suggest you to download latest drivers from lenovo site. Install PM driver supplied, better than windows original . One more thing, I tested my battery life , I can't have 3h30 as written in the notice, I don't know how Lenovo obtained this peformance...