Notebook Hardware Control

[martinv]

Hi folks!

I've bought a ThinkPad z61p, works like a charm as expected.
However, I installed Notebook Hardware Control (NHC), to see if it would
do better than the ThinkPad power utilities. I found that NHC was
fine, but to create power profiles, you have to buy the professional
edition - which I do not intend to do. So I wanted to return to the
ThinkPad utility for power management - since it has got profiles -
but realised that NHC had taken over the management of power profiles.
Which means, that the ThinkPad utility simply doesn't work!
In NHC I've disabled ACPI control, but it doesn't really help..
Neither does uninstalling NHC - when I use Fn + F3 to open the
power manager, I can't select any profile. And all my custom profiles
are gone. When selecting one of the two standard profiles, nothing
happens, and I cannot create new profiles as well. I really don't want
to run system restore already, so if someone knows the answer,
I'll be happy to know it!

Thanks in advance.

Martin V

-edit-
Oh I forgot, I'm running XP pro.

[Wiz]

I never seen NHC remove the power schemes created using power manager or change them in any way so i find it strange if NHC messed up the power schemes. You could try to uninstall power manager, restart and reinstall power manager again to see if that fix the problem, but you probably have to recreate your custom schemes. I assume you login with the same windows account you used when you created the schemes?

[martinv]

Hei Wiz, thanks for answering.

I've tried to uninstall ThinkVantage power manager, and re-installing
both the manager, and the driver. None of that works. And yes, it's on the same windows account. I even tried to restore the hold drivers using ThinkVantage restore-guide (I think I did it right, but not sure). I also tried to use windows System Restore - but it didn't work (maybe I just tried a wrong checkpoint-date, I intend to try another restore-date when I've got the time).

So I'm still open for any comments and thoughts that could help me!

Martinv

[GomJabbar]

Try System Restore from Windows SAFE MODE.

See also the following if you run Norton AntiVirus or Norton Internet Security:
Message: "Restoration Incomplete. Your computer cannot be restored . . . " when you run Windows System Restore

[martinv]

Hey that's great, thanks man! It worked

I'm just getting angry thinking about NHC spoils the ACPI settings, blocking for other programs to work... One thing is sure: NEVER MORE NHC!

Thanks a lot