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    EX625 - Two things that make me mad

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by alphster, Jan 26, 2010.

  1. alphster

    alphster Notebook Guru

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    Obviously, the first one is the placement of the FN key. But over the past 6 months, i'm slowly getting used to it.

    The other thing that really irks me is that the battery life is JUST 10-20 minutes short of a full DVD movie. Everytime I want to watch a movie (with full battery life), the battery runs out and it forces shutdown pretty much at the END of every movie. It's impossible to watch a movie without slightly charging it at some point. What's up with that?!!?

    Anything I can do to squeeze out the extra 10-20 minutes of battery life??
     
    alphster, Jan 26, 2010
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  2. Lambofreak

    Lambofreak I like, love laptops

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    Change the windows power setting to power saver. Also if your video card software has something (ATI has powerplay, nvidia has something too, not sure what its called). Make sure these are on power saver as well.

    Aside from going deeper into undervolting, this is your only option.
     
    Lambofreak, Jan 26, 2010
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  3. Rorschach

    Rorschach Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    Running the dvd from your hdd should help a bit
     
    Rorschach, Jan 26, 2010
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  4. Lambofreak

    Lambofreak I like, love laptops

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    Removing your monitor will help also.
     
    Lambofreak, Jan 26, 2010
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