problem with fr415s battery life

[senden]

hi, i got my fr415s about a month ago, since having it i cant seem to get my battery to last that long at all, if my battery will only last up to an hour, can anyone tell me how to lengthen this? ive discharged it fully a couple of times and tht but it doesnt seem to help, ive read in a previous post to change the screen brightness will this help? also how do u change your screen brightness? im new to both xp and laptops, please help me someone because my main function for my laptop will be 4 hour train journeys

[kee-lo_]

Didn't think so.
At the moment it's "Go Create"

[senden]

ok thx for the advice kee lo, but what and where is powerpannel?? ive looked at my power settings and cant see anywhere which lets me change the brightness of my screen, and what is adaptive processing? sorry if these seem like silly questions, also sony shouldnt put that the battery wil last 1 hour and 45 minutes unless it actually does without changing settings or at least give u a manual to tell u how to make the most use of the battery, alls i got with my laptop is a lot of useless manuals, and the guide on the cd is just as bad.l

[kee-lo_]

PowerPanel is a program for VAIOs to control the power. It's a power gage icon in the system tray.

In there you can change stuff to suit your enviorment, and what you're doing (word processing, spreadsheets etc).

Righ click this icon, and go to edit / change profile.

Change the settings in there and save it as a new scheme.

Edit: oh yeah forgot the adaptive processing. This just means that if you're doing Word Processing, it will use less CPU time, saving power.

[senden]

ok thanks, and if tht dont work wud u recommend me gettin a new battery?

[senden]

ok ive looked up everything and still no change im adjusted my power settings, stil no good, i still cant seem to find how to change my screen brightness tho, also cant find powerpannel, is this a programme which sony have added on? coz ive done a system recovery once on my laptop and it didnt reinstall all the software my laptop came with.

[kee-lo_]

Hi

Do you have a P4 or P4m?

[senden]

i dont really know for sure but im 80% sure its p4 it aint got p4 mobile on it if thts wot u mean, sorry for being a pain but this is really killin me spendin so much money on a laptop which battery only lasts an hour

[kee-lo_]

Ah there's your problem, as it's a desktop chip you can't control things like that.

[senden]

so ur tellin me there aint nout i can do to impove my battery jeez wot a rip off at like £1.5k

[JoeB.]

hi,

look at your keyboard... look for the blue letters... keep the blue FN button pressed while you press the function key(F5) then use your arrow keys to ajust.


check for a utility called POWERPANEL... there you can set all of the power-management possiblities

Joe