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    1420: Vista Power Plan Settings Not Saving?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by garsh0p, Aug 14, 2007.

  1. garsh0p

    garsh0p Notebook Guru

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    i have vista basic on my 1420, and everytime i change the power plan settings (such as how long it waits before turning the monitor/hard drive off) and turn my computer off then on, the settings are reset. it has become very annoying to change the settings every single time. does anyone know what the problem is?
     
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    bump. can anyone help me out?

    would keeping the battery out of the laptop have an effect on it saving settings? i keep the battery out while i have AC power plugged in at my house.
     
    garsh0p, Aug 16, 2007
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    anyone? =\
     
    garsh0p, Aug 17, 2007
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    have you tried leaving the battery in and doing all of the power changing options? just to see what happens?
     
    brianj320, Aug 17, 2007
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    i tried leaving the battery in but that didn't help.

    what do you mean by all the power changing options?
     
    garsh0p, Aug 18, 2007
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    Have you tried creating your own powerplan and using that instead of modding the preexisting ones settings?
     
    ChaosKye, Aug 18, 2007
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    yeah. tried both. no luck =(

    this is quite annoying.
     
    garsh0p, Aug 18, 2007
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