Comments on: When “smart” technology is dumb: a lesson in Intel graphics power-saving features

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:03:20 +0000

Thanks for this! This has been driving me mad on my Dell E6400. I work in IT, and couldn’t quite click what was going on…Making the false assumption that Windows Power Management should control all this….

Finally fixed!!!

THANK YOU!

By: trendless

trendless — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:01:40 +0000

I’ve only ever had the problem under Windows 7..

By: nathan118

nathan118 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:37:28 +0000

For what it’s worth, I’m no longer having this problem in windows 7. Not sure if it’s windows 7 that made it better, or if the intel drivers have been updated. But since upgrading, I have had the whole colors changing and getting darker thing, and then randomly going back to normal….it has stopped. Haven’t opened up the intel control panel thing since I upgraded.

By: trendless

trendless — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:34:53 +0000

Power Savings keeps getting turned back on for me too; whenever the AC Adapter is plugged or unplugged, when it wakes from Sleep or Hibernation, everytime the system is restarted… how do we disable it permanently without sacrificing Aero or effects?

By: nathan118

nathan118 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:51:10 +0000

The most aggravating part is that by the time I click on the intel icon in the tray, and get to the power saving tab, it starts to brighten back up and apparently turn off power saving!

I haven’t looked to see if there are new intel drivers are not.

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:53:03 +0000

@nathan118: i have the exact same problem with intel driver setting the power savin technology back on. it happens when i change power profile in windows 7 to power save mode and every time i unplug my notebook from the charger. if the option is enabled my screen flickers slightly and its very annoying so if anyone knows a solution, please tell me!!

By: vanu

vanu — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:14:36 +0000

i ve a problem , my all the buttons in power setting windows are disabled!

By: nathan118

nathan118 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:07:26 +0000

I discovered this whole power management problem before seeing this site, so it was nice to see that my suspicions were confirmed.

The problem I’m having though, is it doesn’t seem to be remembering my settings. I’ll set it to disable, but when I look at it later, it’s set to custom. Anyone else having this problem?

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:39:30 +0000

Hi everyone. I have similar VGA and XP (still) and i have problems with my account in XP – it loads slow and its new install of windows not bloated up. I wonder why – other accounts do not have this issue. While loading for about a minute there is no HDD activity.
I am sure its the VGA as it does the same when using fast user switch and also when opening the display properties.

Can someone advise what have i changed to cause this?

By: wbkang

wbkang — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:15:14 +0000

@TheNetAvenger: good points. except, no one here argued that you should turn off aero…