Comments on: Notebook Hardware Control v. 2.0 pre-release

By: Tory Larson

Tory Larson — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:13:24 +0000

Kevin, do you have the ACPI module functional in NHC? I have a Q1U, and am wondering if a module for a previous Q1 model would work. I find that I despise the Samsung Battery Manager…just not enough control for me.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:04:57 +0000

Stu, don’t be too hard on yourself. Like the CPU, my brain doesn’t support speed-stepping either; it’s either On or Off, so half of my day is filled with Duh moments. ;)

By: Stu Gisburne

Stu Gisburne — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:57:28 +0000

Ahhhh. Duh. Thanks Kevin.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:51:57 +0000

Stu, the Celeron M that we have in the Q1 doesn’t support dynamic switching / Speed Stepping as far as I know, so NHC greys out the options. If the CPU did, we’d likely get better battery life as the chip would cycle slower as needed or set.

By: Stu Gisburne

Stu Gisburne — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:31:37 +0000

When using NHC, my Q1 comes across as dynamic switching, but my CPU speed alawys reads 900Mhz. I went into the Battery Manager and my CPU speed is set for Max performance and the CPU options are all greyed out. I cannot set it to auto. Anyone else see this?

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:18:00 +0000

I’m still tweaking and looking for the best power management combination, so my opinion on that is forthcoming.

Charles, I had no issues with the BT Think Outside keyboard after the BIOS upgrade; I used it all day today without any issues. One of the downsides to these types of BIOS upgrades is when there isn’t a readily available restore of the prior version to see if the upgrade is causing specific issues. I’d definitely doublecheck to see if the Bluetooth radio in the Q1 is disabled; not likely but always good to start with the basics.

By: charles pritt

charles pritt — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:59:29 +0000

Not sure whether it was the NHC or the bios upgrade for my samsung Q1, but i have now lost all connectivity with my bluetooth devices, the thinkoutside stowaway keyboard and the bluetake bt500 mouse.

I installed the new bios upgrade and the system rebooted and everything worked fine. I installed the nhc and it worked and then i decided to disable the tray icons because they were taking up too much space on my Q1. after i changed the settings i noticed the tray icons were still there. so i rebooted. after that none of my bluetooth devices worked.

and i can’t get the q1 to restablish connection to either device even though i put them both in the discoverable mode. it keeps coming back as service not supported. this is even after i reinstalled the bluetooth driver which i pulled down from samsung.

By: Lorie Ghamy

Lorie Ghamy — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:41:23 +0000

Yes Kevin, I use this pre-release from one week. And not really sure the NHC is better then the samsung original one.

Special receipe for Samsung Q1 ?

By: Acetuk

Acetuk — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:05:34 +0000

Wow… sorry about that! Something went mad my endvand I reposted this lots of times!

By: Acetuk

Acetuk — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:03:13 +0000

Kevin,
I’d very much like to understand how you combine this on your Q1 alongside the XP inbuilt power management functions and the Samsung battery management program.

I bought NHC and have struggled to work out the best combination.

Andrew