Power Manager ... FN+F3 scheme choice takes forever to come

[davidspalding]

I upgraded my antiqued Power Manager 1.13c to the latest-greatest (1.47? I'm at work and can't recall). The options within Power Manager are great (more extensive options for closed lid), but the FN+F3 option to switch power schemes is taking for-EVER to come up. So long that other programs started after it load up before. Once or twice, I simulated lid-close (which I have set to only turn off the LCD), and the scheme menu came up immediately on the LCD powering back on.

Has anyone else experienced this?

[sarbin]

i'm running 1.30b and don't have any issues. i've never tried 1.4x as i've not seen anything in the changelog that interested me. not sure if it has all the lid-closed options of 1.4x, but wanna try 1.30b?

[davidspalding]

Thanks, I actually found Battery Maximizer 1.38, a later version of what you've got. I've tried that route before (using the T40/41/42 Battery Maximizer software) and it was stable, but lost a couple of features the T43 software supports.

[sarbin]

to clarify, i'm not using battery maximizer at all. it's not even installed on my machine. i only use power manager on my t43. i've got a number of different versions archived in my driver library.

[davidspalding]

IIRC I believe I found that Battery Maximizer was the software that supported T40s, T41s, T42s, and the Power Manager supports T43s. I ran Power Manager on a T41 a couple of jobs ago, and it worked.

Edit: OH, I see what you're saying. I didn't find any reference to 1.30b online so I presumed you were referring to Maximizer. My mistake.

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Last night I rolled back to Power Manager 1.13c, hoping the lastest Power Management Drivers would be compatible. So far, no worries. And where it took 35-45 seconds for the FN+F3 "Choose Power Scheme" menu to appear with PM 1.47 , it's back to 3 seconds for 1.13c.

That's good enough empirical evidence for me.

I also was having trouble with the FN+F5 menu for Access Connections 4.52 (last version before more recent 5.02, which was reported having problems), slow to come up not coming up at all. So I rolled back to 4.12. Problem gone. ... I may even roll further to 3.82, which I recall was quite stable, and 4.x just added new stuff for the Z60s.

... System Update's going bye-bye this morning ... it no longer offers any value at all.

[davidspalding]

Addendum: I rolled back Access Connections to 3.82. After some adjustment issues, recalling how this version, I'm happy I did. Working quite rapidly. The FN+F5 menu comes up lickety-split.