Dave, Yes, disabling Speedstep will shorten your battery life by 40%-50%. Best, Steve On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 18:53 +0100, Dave Oxley wrote: > Steve, > > Cheers, disabling Speedstep sorted it out. Will this adversly affect my > battery life? > > Dave. > > Steve Fink wrote: > > >Dave, > > > >Check the BIOS settings on Power Management. The Inspiron 8600 has > >Intel Speedstep Technology enabled by default. That means that on > >battery power the processor runs at half speed. Try setting the bios to > >leave the processor at full speed on battery and see how that goes. > > > >Best, > > > >Steve > > > > > > > >On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 16:05 +0100, Dave Oxley wrote: > > > > > >>I have FC2 (with all updates) installed on an Inspiron 8600. The machine > >>works fine when plugged into the mains but will not boot when running on > >>betteries. It gets to 'Setting up local disks' and hangs. Does anyone > >>know how I can solve this? > >> > >>Cheers. > >>Dave. > >> > >> > > > > > >
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