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abeery
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 Posted - 02/16/2008 : 12:30:07
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abeery
New Member
USA
58 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2008 : 12:33:12
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P1620 - Tip Keep System Responsive (may work on 1610, p1510 as well)
Keep your system responsive by running a run-away process limiter... I'm using Lasso.exe which you can read about here: http://www.bitsum.com/prolasso.php
"Process Lasso is a unique new technology intended to automatically adjust the allocation of CPU cycles so that system responsiveness is improved in high-load situations. It does this by dynamically temporarily lowering the priorities of processes that are consuming too many CPU cycles, there-by giving other processes a chance to run if they are in need. This is useful for both single and multi-core processors. No longer will a single process be able to bring your system to a virtual stall."
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abeery
New Member
USA
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abeery
New Member
USA
58 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2008 : 12:38:54
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p1610 - Tip
Hardware manuals (PDF Files) for the various subsystems available here: http://www.pcoxford.com/pdf |
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abeery
New Member
USA
58 Posts |
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kindall
Junior Member
USA
145 Posts |
Posted - 02/17/2008 : 11:26:30
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Great idea for a thread!
Don't forget RMClock for adjusting SpeedStep and even undervolting the processor. It'll help you eke a little out of the battery and keep the machine cooler, but still give you the option for full performance when you need it.
http://cpu.rightmark.org/products/rmclock.shtml
Notebook Hardware Control is a similar program, but I tried it on my 1620 and it didn't seem to let me adjust anything. Weird.
http://www.pbus-167.com/
The BIOS for the 1620 lets you disable one of the cores on the Core 2 Duo CPU. Oddly, this doesn't seem to affect battery life or heat generation, though the extra core does appear to be hidden from Windows as promised (i.e., it's not Windows overriding the BIOS).
Jerry Kindall - Bellevue, Washington, USA |
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jkim
Junior Member
USA
161 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2008 : 00:51:30
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Any tips on adjusting the fan speed to keep the unit cooler? p1610
Under BIOS - there is only "normal" and "silent"
Joseph Kim, M.D.
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kindall
Junior Member
USA
145 Posts |
Posted - 02/27/2008 : 20:17:55
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"Normal" will run the fan more than "silent" so it will keep it slightly cooler, I'm sure.
Another speedup tip: the SSD is very noticeably faster in everyday use... I won't go so far to say that it's worth the money, but it's very nice.
Jerry Kindall - Bellevue, Washington, USA |
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nomo
Average Member
812 Posts |
Posted - 03/03/2008 : 12:38:42
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quote:
Originally posted by kindall
Don't forget RMClock for adjusting SpeedStep and even undervolting the processor. It'll help you eke a little out of the battery and keep the machine cooler, but still give you the option for full performance when you need it.
What CPU and OS loads are you seeing on the P1620? I am running Version 2.35 of RM CPU Clock Utility on my P1610 and noticed that the CPU and OS loads are frequently 100% (especially while surfing the web). This is not much of a surprise given the Core Solo processor in the P1610, but I was wondering if the Dual Core chip in the P1620 is less taxed. |
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nomo
Average Member
812 Posts |
Posted - 03/03/2008 : 13:48:38
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Originally posted by jkim
Any tips on adjusting the fan speed to keep the unit cooler?
I'm not sure about fan speed, but one way to improve ventilation is to reorient the display so the vent points up when using tablet mode. The normal 270° orientation is fine for portrait, but for landscape rotate your screen by right-clicking the Desktop and selecting Graphics Options\Rotation\180 Degrees. I set my default tablet orientation to 180° so the fan points up when I flip open the display. |
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nomo
Average Member
812 Posts |
Posted - 03/10/2008 : 17:59:53
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abeery
New Member
USA
58 Posts |
Posted - 03/11/2008 : 15:18:33
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Backup Tip
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Originally posted by CommanderData
I can answer your installation questions- If you want to get a guaranteed perfect install of the P1620's disk do this:
1) DO NOT boot your P1620 when you get it.
2) Plug in a USB CD/DVD drive and a USB hard drive
3) Get a bootable Norton Ghost disc (or your preferred hard drive imaging software) and put it in the CD/DVD drive
4) Boot from your USB CD/DVD, use Ghost to make a backup of the P1620's installed hard drive on the USB hard drive
5) Shut down, remove your P1620's harddrive (still in "virgin" condition, it makes a great backup) and replace with new SSD you purchased.
6) Plug the CD/DVD drive and USB drive back in, boot up with the CD/DVD and use Ghost to copy the backup drive image from the USB hard drive to the SSD you just installed in the P1620.
7) Unplug the CD/DVD and USB hard drive, and boot into Windows for the first time! Perform any necessary steps like time/date configuration and enjoy :)
I have done this with many laptops over the years. Usually I will buy mine with the smallest available drive and then go out and buy the *largest* available drive to do this swap. The coolest part is when you decide you've outgrown your laptop and want to sell, you just put the old drive back in (still "virgin", never booted) and you don't have to worry about anyone recovering your data. Plus they get a great deal with a perfectly clean system.
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abeery
New Member
USA
58 Posts |
Posted - 03/12/2008 : 09:29:01
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P1620 TIP: Screen will not wakeup from sleep
Our buddy Jerry Kindall of jkOnTheRun fame offers this tip on his blog... Basically since the screens controller is now USB... be sure to change the devices options to disallow power management shutdown of the device...
His post can be found here: http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2008/03/touch-screen-wo.html
...and if he doesn't object to my lifting a quote:
"One of the differences in hardware on the P1620 over the predecessor the P1610 was the change to a USB-based touch screen controller. I got to thinking about this change when I had the second failure of the touch screen to wake up and realized that it always happened upon a resume from sleep. I know that Windows defaults to allow the OS to shut USB components down as part of the power saving features so I checked in the Device Manager to see if that was the case.
Sure enough if you look under HID (Human Interface Devices) and open the FCL USB Pen Tablet component you find that under the Power Management tab the touch screen is set to allow power management to shut this device down. Now I can't think of a single circumstance when you would ever want the touch screen controller to be shut down so just deselect that option on that tab and you should be home free"
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nomo
Average Member
812 Posts |
Posted - 03/12/2008 : 10:11:42
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Originally posted by abeery
Our buddy Jerry Kindall of jkOnTheRun fame...
Thnanks for the tip, Andrew. I think you're referring to James Kendrick. |
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jkendrick
Starting Member
USA
3 Posts |
Posted - 03/12/2008 : 11:23:36
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Yep, he means James Kendrick
jkOntheRun |
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abeery
New Member
USA
58 Posts |
Posted - 03/12/2008 : 13:56:44
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| Whoops.... here I cut and pasted so I would not mis-spell the lastname and I accidently grabbed the wrong name!!! You'd think a pastor would be better with names! Please accept my appologies James! |
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kindall
Junior Member
USA
145 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2008 : 02:47:09
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It's an easy mistake to make, sometimes even I think I'm James Kendrick.
Jerry Kindall - Bellevue, Washington, USA |
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KingKoala
Starting Member
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Posted - 03/21/2008 : 10:11:18
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"4) Boot from your USB CD/DVD, use Ghost to make a backup of the P1620's installed hard drive on the USB hard drive"
Sounds like a good idea. Few questions:
What key do I press a gazillion times (for the p1620) to prevent it from booting from the HD the first time I turn it on. I'm not even sure the P1620 will recognize my USB CD/dvd without a driver install? |
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kindall
Junior Member
USA
145 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2008 : 20:33:07
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F12 will give you a list of bootable devices and you can pick one. You can edit this list in the BIOS somewhere (don't have my P1620 handy at the moment).
The drive does have to be bootable. I have a Samsung slot-loading DVD/CD burner that I bought because it could be powered entirely from the bus. The P1620 won't boot from it. The P1620 also doesn't appear to be able to boot from a USB flash thumb drive. I have a couple USB hard disks that I haven't tried yet.
Jerry Kindall - Bellevue, Washington, USA |
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mr1
Average Member
USA
724 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2008 : 20:56:48
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quote:
Originally posted by kindall
F12 will give you a list of bootable devices and you can pick one. You can edit this list in the BIOS somewhere (don't have my P1620 handy at the moment).
The drive does have to be bootable. I have a Samsung slot-loading DVD/CD burner that I bought because it could be powered entirely from the bus. The P1620 won't boot from it. The P1620 also doesn't appear to be able to boot from a USB flash thumb drive. I have a couple USB hard disks that I haven't tried yet.
Jerry Kindall - Bellevue, Washington, USA
It can in fact boot from a thumb drive. I accidentially did just that with my 1510 just last week for the first time.
There are instructions here somewhere. Let me know if you can't find them.
Mike
MR1
5010D-60G HD,1GB RAM XPP
12/2005 P1510 30GB (Upgraded to 60GB HD)1GB Ram XPT BT Portreplicator |
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KingKoala
Starting Member
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Posted - 03/21/2008 : 21:11:11
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"It can in fact boot from a thumb drive. I accidentially did just that with my 1510 just last week for the first time.
There are instructions here somewhere. Let me know if you can't find them."
Let me know if you can figure this out again. Maybe I can put ghost on a thumb drive, since I don't think I will have a bootable usb dvd.
Thanks!
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mr1
Average Member
USA
724 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2008 : 01:57:04
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Originally posted by KingKoala
"It can in fact boot from a thumb drive. I accidentially did just that with my 1510 just last week for the first time.
There are instructions here somewhere. Let me know if you can't find them."
Let me know if you can figure this out again. Maybe I can put ghost on a thumb drive, since I don't think I will have a bootable usb dvd.
Thanks!
Everything you need can be found here. It does work. Read through the entire thing to follow the right path.
http://www.leog.net/fujp_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10473&SearchTerms=boot,flash
MR1
5010D-60G HD,1GB RAM XPP
12/2005 P1510 30GB (Upgraded to 60GB HD)1GB Ram XPT BT Portreplicator |
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nomo
Average Member
812 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2008 : 01:03:21
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Maintenance Tip: Periodically clean your HDD/SSD using Checkdisk, Disk Cleanup, and System File Checker.
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Originally posted by tmt
It might be worth running "chkdsk /f c:" to
see if there's any corruption or stale stuff hiding in the filesystem.
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kindall
Junior Member
USA
145 Posts |
Posted - 04/07/2008 : 00:49:24
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Originally posted by mr1
quote:
Originally posted by kindall
F12 will give you a list of bootable devices and you can pick one. You can edit this list in the BIOS somewhere (don't have my P1620 handy at the moment).
The drive does have to be bootable. I have a Samsung slot-loading DVD/CD burner that I bought because it could be powered entirely from the bus. The P1620 won't boot from it. The P1620 also doesn't appear to be able to boot from a USB flash thumb drive. I have a couple USB hard disks that I haven't tried yet.
Jerry Kindall - Bellevue, Washington, USA
It can in fact boot from a thumb drive. I accidentially did just that with my 1510 just last week for the first time.
There are instructions here somewhere. Let me know if you can't find them.
Mike
MR1
5010D-60G HD,1GB RAM XPP
12/2005 P1510 30GB (Upgraded to 60GB HD)1GB Ram XPT BT Portreplicator
Stupid me, I turned off USB legacy support in the BIOS because XP supports USB. I didn't realize that would keep it from seeing USB devices at boot time. The Samsung burner boots the Acronis CD fine, which is what I was mostly concerned with. It'd be nice to have that on a flash drive, but the bootable image linked on the other thread appears to be MIA, so I'll just stick with the CD for now...
Jerry Kindall - Bellevue, Washington, USA |
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kindall
Junior Member
USA
145 Posts |
Posted - 04/16/2008 : 15:01:49
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Just a little tip for those trying to eke out a little extra runtime by turning down the backlight: On my P1620, the brightness button came configured to run a Fujitsu-supplied program that turns the backlight to its lowest setting, or restores it to the original setting on a subsequent press. This button is Button 3 in XP Tablet's Tablet and Pen Settings control panel applet. The button can be reassigned to turn off the screen entirely (just click Change and then choose "Turn off screen"). But how do you turn it back on? Any keypress or pointer movement will do the trick, but if you've got the P1620 in tablet mode, there are no keys to press, and tapping the screen might click something (you don't know because you can't see the screen). The Fn button will do the trick -- it has no side effects and turns the screen right back on. :-)
Jerry Kindall - Bellevue, Washington, USA |
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nomo
Average Member
812 Posts |
Posted - 04/16/2008 : 16:00:15
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Originally posted by kindall
The button can be reassigned to turn off the screen entirely (just click Change and then choose "Turn off screen").
The "Turn off screen" function is available in XP Tablet but not Vista. 
BTW, although only a few buttons appear in Tablet and Pen Settings, it's possible to show and reprogram all the buttons by making a few quick changes in the registry file. I'll post directions if anyone is interested. I also renamed "Button 3" to "Screen Brightness" because I kept confusing it with the screen rotate button which has a "3" above it. |
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P1620, p1610, p1510 Performance Tips
