The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Acer e-power management

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by charlesb80, Jun 18, 2006.

  1. charlesb80

    charlesb80 Notebook Geek NBR Reviewer

    Reputations:
    6
    Messages:
    88
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Was there a solution to the e-power management resource hogging problem? I am finding sometimes that it takes 50% CPU on my dual core notebook (which means an entire core!). This is totally unbelievable.

    The process in question is called:

    ePower_DMC.exe

    Any information on how to stop / avoid this would be useful! It can easily steal 1hr of battery life!
     
    charlesb80, Jun 18, 2006
    #1
  2. speedfrk

    speedfrk Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    90
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    My solution was to uninstall it along with all the other acer crap that was on it. Even still, it uses about 100MB more system memory than my desktop - measured right after boot-up before opening any programs. Both computers are set up almost identically. I think the only way to get the best performance possible, is to do a format and reinstall from scratch.
     
    speedfrk, Jun 18, 2006
    #2
  3. Travel Matey

    Travel Matey Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    90
    Messages:
    103
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    If you uninstall ePower Management, how do you get full LCD brightness back? On my system, without ePower, my LCD only gets to ~80% brightness.
     
    Travel Matey, Jun 18, 2006
    #3
  4. speedfrk

    speedfrk Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    90
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    I hadn't noticed any difference in brightness on my 5672 except when unplugged. For that, I just used the keyboard to increase it.
     
    speedfrk, Jun 21, 2006
    #4