Power Options not available

[Guest]

Hi,
My laptop keeps turning off after a minute or so inactivity..I have tried
logging in as an administrator but i cannot access the power options icon. ie
nothing happens when i click it.
Any ideas?

 

[Pennywise]

Hi,
My laptop keeps turning off after a minute or so inactivity..I have tried
logging in as an administrator but i cannot access the power options icon. ie
nothing happens when i click it.
Any ideas?

Press the WInKey+R type in: powercfg.cpl
or
Start | Run <type in> powercfg.cpl <enter>

 

[Guest]

Hi
Tried that but still nothing

Press the WInKey+R type in: powercfg.cpl
or
Start | Run <type in> powercfg.cpl <enter>

 

[Pennywise]

Hi
Tried that but still nothing

Enter the BIOS - and see if you can disable ACPI (or any related power
options). That would stop your power management from kicking in, maybe
allowing you time to fix the problem

 

[R. McCarty]

Disabling ACPI could cause an unbootable condition. The computer
driver ( ACPI HAL ) is likely to BSOD when the BIOS is set for a
Non-ACPI or Standard PC configuration. Worse case it might cause
XP to re-enumerate all devices because of the change in HAL.

 

[Pennywise]

Disabling ACPI could cause an unbootable condition. The computer
driver ( ACPI HAL ) is likely to BSOD when the BIOS is set for a
Non-ACPI or Standard PC configuration. Worse case it might cause
XP to re-enumerate all devices because of the change in HAL.

In my defense I did try to cancel that message. Their problem just
wasn't worth the attempt.

 

[Guest]

Ooops sorry guys, got a llittle lost in that info.
I have just found out that I have power options by ACER but i have not used
these before or changed anything. If I do try to use the acer options a pop
up saying EPM-DM application is not running.

 

[Guest]

It appears I have fixed it. I went into search EPM-DM and clicked on the
symbol for it an am now using acer power management which appears to be
working (still I was not using it before..Just windows.
Anyway thanks

Ooops sorry guys, got a llittle lost in that info.
I have just found out that I have power options by ACER but i have not used
these before or changed anything. If I do try to use the acer options a pop
up saying EPM-DM application is not running.