{"id":23,"date":"2009-03-31T22:47:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T21:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2009-03-31T22:48:07","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T21:48:07","slug":"chill-your-notebook-with-nhc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Chill your Notebook with NHC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having had all sorts of <a href=\"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/2009\/02\/27\/chrome-ate-my-thinkpad\/\">problems with my Lenovo T42p overheating after the fan blew<\/a>, even with the fan kept on maximum, I had to find ways to force the temperature down. \u00c2\u00a0Not cool when trying to run a backup causes an abrupt system shutdown!<\/p>\n<p>I found the answer in the really nifty application <a title=\"Notebook Hardware Control\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbus-167.com\/nhc\/nhc.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Notebook Hardware Control<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0This application allows you to control the various settings on your notebook associated with power management. \u00c2\u00a0You can assign different profiles for docked and undocked. \u00c2\u00a0Most importantly, you can throttle down the speed your CPU&#8217;s running at by controlling the voltage, triggered by different CPU loads.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/nhc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-24 \" title=\"Notebook Hardware Control\" src=\"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/nhc-150x150.png\" alt=\"Notebook Hardware Control\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Notebook Hardware Control<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By doing this, you can turn your CPU speed &#8212; which you generally don&#8217;t need most of, given a modern machine &#8212; way down. \u00c2\u00a0<em>I<\/em> find this useful for keeping my machine cool &#8230; but <em>you&#8217;ll<\/em> probably find it useful because by turning the speed down, you can substantially prolong your battery life. \u00c2\u00a0I find that &#8212; even with the fan kept on full all the time &#8212; I&#8217;m adding another 0:30 or so to my battery time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having had all sorts of problems with my Lenovo T42p overheating after the fan blew, even with the fan kept on maximum, I had to find ways to force the temperature down. \u00c2\u00a0Not cool when trying to run a backup causes an abrupt system shutdown! I found the answer in the really nifty application Notebook &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/?p=23\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chill your Notebook with NHC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}