Comments on: Vista Update: SpeedStep Now Working

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:51:49 +0000

Same here… I actually posted my comment on your previous post. Hope you can help us.. I’m running on vista and yup, i’m getting like 45 mins of battery life only. Then when I used a USB wifi.. got worse, i’m clocking 25 mins battery time only…. Not a techie, too…

By: ian

ian — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:50:26 +0000

hi guys. i’m no tech guru. but i was wondering how you were able to modify your bios? i run my B1256tu on XP and i only get 45mins battery life. can you help me guys. battery life is my best priority right now. thanks. hope you guys can help me on this.

By: J. Angelo Racoma

J. Angelo Racoma — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:51:12 +0000

Renmin, it’s great that you get 2.5+ hours on your B1256TU. My battery meter usually reports 2+ hours, but I guess the most I’ve had so far is 2.5 hours so far. What voltage levels do you use? The T2370 is rated from 1.075 to 1.175 volts, I believe.

Jhay, I don’t think it’s possible to squeeze out more battery juice for the C765TU, because of its Celeron-M processor. It will always run at 100% clock speed. You could try throttling the speed down, but I’m not sure if that will do much difference in terms of battery life.

By: jhay

jhay — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:37:44 +0000

Hmm,. maybe I should start looking into this trick as well. I’m looking for ways to extend the battery life of my c765TU notebook.

I suppose the procedure is the same? Tweaking things in the BIOS?

By: renmin

renmin — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:49:37 +0000

Interesting. I run XP on my B1256TU. Fortunately it doesn’t have any issues with SpeedStep. I addressed the heat issue through undervolting with RMClock. (I used RMClock on my old laptop as well, a Compaq V2310 with an AMD Turion processor.)

How much battery life are you getting now? I get around 2.5 to under 3 hours with Wifi on and 50% screen brightness. I’ve also thought about disabling the LAN and ExpressCard slot in the BIOS to see if it will extend the battery life a bit more.

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