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Hi Tails, sorry to hear of your misfortune it must really be bugging you! Can’t say i’ve had a similar problem or heard of one, is it possible you could take a picture of the pesky thing for us on Sammynetbook to gawp at? Good luck by the way 🙂
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Hi guys,
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Battery life:
When I first got my NC10 (around 3 months ago) windows battery manager suggested that the standard 5400 battery would last between 7-8 hours which I think is exceptional. However, I noticed that this value would change drastically depending upon my activity so I installed BatteryBarv3.1 to try and get a more accurate reading. Having used the program for sometime now (battery wear is 11.5% apparently) it suggests that my maximum battery life is 4 hrs 21 mins. This seems rather short compared with some of the figures that I have seen users posting on the forum.
[/quote1247174470]I wouldn’t fully trust any battery reading software, for example I was told I had 15% battery wear a few months ago and now I have 10%. The quoted battery life in these programs is based on the current level of power consumption and guesswork on the softwares part for example if the NC10 is idle you will get a much better prediction. 7-8 hours battery life is not that attainable in my opinion, 5-6 hours is more the norm in my experience. That’s with wifi on and 3 brightness.
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Slow boot up:
I have followed Freddy’s excellent thread to try and improve my boot up time (largely due to the fact that I wanted to avoid using the Hibernate feature if at all possible), however, i feel the need to use it as my boot up time takes approximately 2-3 mins to become useable (i.e. mouse pointer moves freely and I can open programs quickly without getting the ‘egg timer’ pointer for more than is necessary). I followed his suggestions to the word (i.e. start up and service suggestions, and registry key tweeks) in the first instance but I experienced reduced functionality (i.e. fn+8 not working etc.) which I wanted to retain. Even with all the options suggested (a ‘bare bones’ approach I would call it) i could still only manage a useable boot-up time of around 2 mins.
[/quote1247174470]Did the NC10 boot faster before you started tweaking things? 2 mins bootup is normal in my experience. Perhaps one of the programs you have installed is causing slow startups, try tweaking your msconfig startup tab? If the desktop is taking a long time to load after bootup it is likely to be a program or service causing the holdup. Or perhaps establishing a network connection is the culprit? The fn-f8 combo will not switch to speed mode if there is no program running to dedicate more CPU power to.
Thanks for the feedback Magikhat 😉
I am really considering getting a 9 cell as an extra battery for trips/holidays and for when my 6 cell capacity dwindles past being useful. I will still use my 6 cell as my ‘main’ battery for the time being because I never need more than a full charge in a day.
Do you get the same ‘lag’ if you use the trackpad? If not this will point the finger at the mouse not the N110. The right USB port supplies less power than the two on the left so put the mouse dongle in the left side whilst using the 3 modem.
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There are fan-made patches that allow the Baldur’s Gate series (and other Infinity engine games) to use widescreen resolutions. (Try “baldur’s gate widescreen” in your favorite search engine.)
[/quote1246903793]Good point, if your game does not support widescreen there is usually a patch/hack to be found that will remedy this. For example I found that a quick edit in a config file enabled me to play Quake III in widescreen.
Hi, welcome to Sammynetbook 🙂
Try this: Go to Start, run and type msconfig.
Then go to the startup tab and make sure ‘bluetooth’ in the startup item collumn is ticked, then reboot.
Ok, just to make sure, when the NC10 is at ‘rest’ are there any lights on at all? If not it’s definately not stuck in hibernation. And the charge light is green when you plug the charger in?
A flashing blue light right? Sorry for sounding obvious but you have to hold down the power button for a second or so to boot from hibernation. If that doesn’t work, remove the battery to clear the hibernation mode and put it back in again?
Hey there, if you want to observe the temperatures inside your NC10 you can use Speedfan which you can download here
When you run Speedfan you need to click on the ‘exotics’ tab and you should get a readout as below:
Can you run this program after an hour or so of use and report back with the temperatures? Generally the fan should start if the NC10 ambient temperature goes over 45C.
