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    W3V and Undervolting

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by sumognat, Nov 17, 2005.

  1. sumognat

    sumognat Notebook Enthusiast

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    I bought the W3V last month, and I am enjoying it very much. :asus:

    I started reading some of the discussions here about undervolting to cool the laptop (not that it's that hot anyway) and prolong battery power.

    I looked at the FAQ sticky at the top of this forum and followed the directions for downloading and running NHC, MS .NET, Everset, and Speedfan. Installing everything worked ok, except that Speedfan didn't recognize the fan. The directions said to run Everest, but I'm not sure what to run. I installed and opened Everest; is there something else I'm supposed to do in Everest inorder for SpeedFan to work properly?

    Also, it has been mentioned that you have to disable Power4Gear in order to run NHC, since P4G overrides NHC. I had the two running simultaneously and it was making my computer do weird things, like hanging up and freezing; so, I just uninstalled all four programs. How do you disable P4G? Do you think the problem I was experiencing was due to the two programs running simultaneously, or could it be a problem with my NHC settings (I followed the same suggestions posted in the FAQ)?

    Thanks.
     
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    TheBigDu Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm not sure if your issues resulted from running both programs at once, but to disable P4G, just uninstall it. Then reinstall NHC and you're good to go.
     
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    sumognat Notebook Enthusiast

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    TheBigDU, thanks for the advice.

    Would it be easier to disable the Startup file for P4G in msconfig? I came across this possibility in another thread, so I disabled the P4G startup program in msconfig and reinstalled NHC. I was messing around with some of the CPU settings and never set them. When I tried to close out of NHC (without making any settings), NHC froze and caused artifacts, so I ended up uninstalling NHC (again) and rebooting. Have others experienced problems like this before? I am beginning to wonder if I should try RightMark instead...
     
    sumognat, Nov 17, 2005
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