Acer Aspire 1410 and 1810T Timeline (single core) 11.6" Thread

[der_mali]

If you are interested in a more accurate measurement of battery life I recommend Battery Bar(thx, Redline). It 'learns' and is much more accurate than Vista, because Vista just extrapolates the momentary power consumption, which is totally useless.

http://osirisdevelopment.com/BatteryBar/

[V1810T]

@TrueEco and V1810T
I recommend to both of you to install latest graphics card drivers from here:

Is that different from the drivers Phil has linked in his Tweaks thread?

Is this sleeve for 12" screens?

Yes, it is a Belkin sleeve for 12.1'' notebooks. I looked around a lot the last week for a sleeve, but the shops either had 10.2'' ones (which might be too small, since the notebook has to fit tight) or much larger ones.
Other people asked for sleeves here on the thread before, but I don't think
anybody posted a "fits perfectly" one yet. I have never seen a sleeve for the Acer Aspire One 751 in stores, but those should work every well, if you can get one.

[leedr]

If you are interested in a more accurate measurement of battery life I recommend Battery Bar(thx, Redline). It 'learns' and is much more accurate than Vista, because Vista just extrapolates the momentary power consumption, which is totally useless.

http://osirisdevelopment.com/BatteryBar/

Maybe you could add this to the Timeline drivers/tweaks thread?

[der_mali]

Is that different from the drivers Phil has linked in his Tweaks thread?

The tweaks thread points to the Intel page, where you can download the latest Notebook chipset drivers.
The link I posted points to the latest desktop drivers which are ahead of the notebook versions.


@TrueEco
Which BIOS version are you running on?

[der_mali]

Maybe you could add this to the Timeline drivers/tweaks thread?

I posted the quote there You are welcome to post quotes or other stuff you find useful there too. Let's form the best Timeline resource available on the web


@everyone
Please post your experiences with SmartFan so that we can move it to Timeline Tweaks. Does it work correctly in Win7 in AC mode, when you set it to passive like AcerTimelineHunter described?

[Cusem]

I think you were spot on about the 2nd memory sloth.

Stock SODIMM in sloth 1 (default) -> no problems
Stock SODIMM in sloth 2 -> system freezes every now and then / is unable to boot anymore unless I move the SODIMM to sloth 1.

I haven't ran any memtests yet, but I guess this is pretty obvious.

Not looking forward to warranty procedure.
1) Are you voiding warranty when installing extra RAM?
2) I don't have the Acer recovery partition anymore (first memory errors caused paritioning software to crash and this affected the Acer recovery partition), do you guys think this is an issue in regards to warranty?

[der_mali]

@Cusem
I'm really no expert in such things. You should google "RAM upgrade voids warranty" or something like that. Off the top of my head I say at least in Europe it doesn't void the warranty because the user is expected to be able to upgrade if the slots are accessible.

In any case I would try to claim your warranty through the retailer you bought it from and not Acer directly.

[leedr]

With light usage and low backlight, fan turned off via SmartFan it should be possible to get even more than 8h out of it. It scales extremely well.

On my 1410 (6-cell 4400mah battery), I'm consistently getting about 4.5 hours max. I have Windows 7 RC 32-bit installed (build 7100).

What's installed:

- Latest drivers (video from Intel, the rest from Acer's site), except the sound driver (which per the tweaks thread uses more CPU)
- max power management is set on wireless and the graphics card
- Acer ePower (Vista) from my application/drivers CD I created from the factory restore partition
- SmartFan w/ der_mali's options.ini

Usage scenario: Typically 3-4 programs open (Firefox, PDF reader, OpenOffice or Microsoft Word, etc). Backlight around 60% brightness. Balanced mode setting for Power Options.

Best discharge rate is 6.5 - 7mW on idle. In normal usage, I get about 9-10mW discharge rate.

Do you think it's just Windows 7? I can try to reboot into Vista again and see what I get - you're using Vista, correct? I know the 6 hour figure (or 8 hour, in your case) is probably optimistic but I'm only getting 75% of that estimate.

Also, I'm not sure how to turn off the fan in SmartFan and what are safe thresholds for this CPU?

[der_mali]

@leedr
I'm still trying to understand what's going on in Vista.
When the device comes ot of standby the power consumption is higher for a long while before it drops again to around 5W.
I don't know what's causing this. I want to understand what's happening in Vista before I install another OS.

If you want to turn the fan completely off just right click on SmartFan in the tray, select Fan Modes, select Stop. I've included my own scheme in options.ini. If you want to use it, right click on SmartFan in the tray, click Configuration, select Default Scheme 'mali'.

Remember!
If you run in AC mode set Fan Mode to 'Auto'

These settings work on BIOS 3113, other BIOS versions might behave differently.

[johnw91498]

So, getting it a bit later is not such a bad thing afterall I'll have to ditch mine to get a TZ instead Luckily I got this from my employer

Hopefully, the tz will come to the US.