2 hours with Nvidia GPU or Intel GMA?
New battery?

2 hours on intel
My s42 is about a year old. But i hardly use the battery (normally just bring charger only).
but i've been charging it once a week to keep it from degrading.

That's quite low
With full brightness or?
wifi on + browsing or just reading documents?

Tried using it to 0% and charge it back to 100% and see how?

Well, nothing much can be done to prevent it from degrading...

This post has been edited by lee_what2004: Mar 2 2010, 01:54 AM

min brightness. Ya wifi on though. what's the average batt life for intel gpu with wifi?

Should be easily reach 3 hours, though depends on the battery capacity as well...

but i thought that discharging the battery is the better way to store a battery instead of keeping it charged?

Oh crap. now i've a bigger problem. I cant change back to my NVIDIA GPU. Fn + F10 or clicking that green icon thing doesnt work. It's still stuck in the intel GMA

assmonk3y, using windows 7? change ur power option see how?

Changed power options to High performance and then right clicked on the Green Nvidia tray icon to change GPUs but no diff. weird. i could change from NVidia to intel but not the other way around

restart laptop no effect arh..... install drivers again lor, cause i think oni you using win 7 64 bit, not sure about bbxiong. and i think he flashed his bios.

@assmonkey
2 hours on Intel, well that kinda low...i can get 4 hours on Intel with minimum brightness and wifi on, with some doc processing also ..maybe you can try discharged your battery & fully charged it again ...

About switching the GC, tried restart your laptop?? And you are using what driver??

2 hours battery only on power saver? that is really low...
i remember last time i max brightness + watching HD anime and can still watch to a near 2 hour duration one wor...

right now using nvidia card also can tahan around 1.5hours or so
try restart and see, suspect got some cpu hogger app running in the shadow

oh well, i went back to Nautis's drivers.

Hey guys can i check one more thing? for those using the S42, under increased performance mode, does your intel GPU show alongside with the Nvidia one in device manager? Or does it just show the Nvidia one?


cause both are turned on in mine



This post has been edited by assmonk3y: Mar 2 2010, 02:38 PM

everybody currently my laptop cant charge its battery why aaa... the adapter can be used but batt wont charged ???

@kabadi: lemme guess...are u using s57??

@assmonkey: cannot remember liao, but iirc it shows both...

ah ok. hey ur 2 hours under nvidia is with wifi turned on also?

err..basically recently i think it was 1.5 hours +- a bit, with VGA res video playing, wifi, max brightness, multitasking with firefox and msn in background

yess bbxiong im using that s57 why is this normal problem haiyaaaa.......

Something to do with their mobo, well a lot of S57 owners face this problem before, just send over to Service Center and all will be done ....

@assmonkey
Under High Performance (as well as if you on nVidia card) it will show both...if you off the nVidia and only the Intel card is on then its only show Intel GPU

This post has been edited by miahahaha: Mar 3 2010, 10:18 AM

@kabadi: it seems like a few s57 user suffer this problem before..u'll have to send your s57 back to service centre

@assmonkey: i think your case should be both card running..much like one of the first hybrid graphic driver that DoX made last time, will only cause nvidia card to run extremely low clock, will not disable it