power management

I have a Windows 7 Toshiba Laptop and I tend to use it while watching the TV, should I charge it then? I know that laptop batteries only are good for so many charges. Is it better to let it run down and recharge when needed? Or put it on charge while using it at home? Thanks

The USB ports on one side of my HP Pavilion laptop are not working fully since recharging the battery after the power ran out and the system hibernated. (Other side is fine.) They recognize that something has been inserted and withdrawn by a sound, but will not actually recognize or power up the...

Hi, i have been having these errors for a while now always the same error code, these are the solutions that I have tried: - updated all drivers. - updated firmware on SSD -installed whole new copy of windows - turned link state power management off -checked device manager, only one audio...

Can a windows 7 computer turn on by its self connect to a wifi internet connection start itunes and go to a specific radio station play for a few hours and then turn off and be able to do it all again night after night? I have a friend and she just can’t get how to use a computer no matter how I...

Fixes an issue in which a computer restarts before the computer enters hibernation. This issue occurs on a computer that supports the iLO 3 feature and that is running Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. More...

I have, in my Control Panel, timers set for both Sleep mode and Hibernation modes (Advanced settings). However, neither one of them ever functions. What could be wrong? Thank you....

I am having an intermittent problem with my network connection dropping out for no apparent reason. When it drops, I still see the lights blinking on the NIC card, but cannot pass packets even to the router. Windows does not report the connection or the cable as disconnected when this...

Hello to everyone! :D I am writing in the hope of finding a solution to a serious problem I'm experiencing, certainly not tied to a software problem but one that I hope we can find a work around by software. My laptop (an HP DV3-2350EL i3 330m cpu and ATI Radeon HD4550 discrete graphics) has...

Okay, so i have this laptop Link Removed - Invalid URL I've been having this kernel power issues reboots and bsod's for a long time now, i've tried every possible hardware piece alone and no faults, im a linux user too and had linux only for 2 months no problems at all. Im really pissed...

hi there guys, i have posted this on a few other places so i hope to have some hints from your community that seems very "active": i have a bit of "weird" problem, that is, my netbook cannot resume properly from sleepBUT hybernation works fine. and the strange thing is, it was a while, lets say...

Hey there, Recently I've been having problems after waking my laptop up from sleep -- I think it tries to shut down instead, because upon waking up it sometimes gives me the "Waiting for programs to close" screen, which I can then press cancel and continue using it normally. This causes a...

Is there a way to turn off a hard drive so it only runs when I want it to. I have a herd drive in my machine that I use for temporary backups and I don't use it very often so I'd like to have it turned off until I need it. Thanx, zepe

I've always wondered if background tasks continue to run while the PC is in sleep mode or hibernation. Are there actions that I can take to wake it up? What happens if I'm running a scan and the PC goes into hibernation or sleep mode? Please help me out........

The computer I have is an Asus G53sw and came loaded with Windows 7 and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M video card. Recently I posted a thread on here to help with blue screens and it seemed to work for about a week and now it is going back to blue screens whenever woken up from sleep mode, but not...

I was regularly using Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit with no problems what so ever from the OS until 2 days back. Since then, suddenly my laptop is taking a lot of time to boot, shutdown or hibernate- surprisingly no noticeable slow down while turning on from hibernation. Entering and exiting...

Desktop does not respond to mouse actions as previously nor the front panel power switch. I have to disconnect the power cord, reconnect, and press the front panel power button. Then the unit starts up and returns to window without the login window as if it was sleeping. The problem started...

Hi guys(and girls) I have an acer 5742g laptop config: Intel i5 [email protected] 4 gb ddr3 ram nvidia geforce gt 420m 1gb I'm running w7 home premium 64-bit Now I only play cs 1.6 and untill recently my fps was steady at 99-100 but now my fps drops to 30-70 without any reason during the game. I've...

I've got a Biostar TA790GXBE motherboard with onboard Realtek RTL8168D NIC. This has three boxes under Power Management: Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power Allow this device to wake the computer Only allow a magic packet to wake the computer I've added a Realtek 8139B NIC...

this computer now goes to sleep for no reason I have looked in the power control and nothing is maked to close down at any time where else controls this thanks

My computer goes all black and doesn't respond, then it says it's on sleep mode. However I can't "wake" it up. And this happens VERY often... I'd appreciate any help given, cheers.