Re: running TP750 with lid closed

[dewar@SCHONBERG.CS.NYU.EDU (Robert Dewar)]

I stumbled upon how to turn off the hard disk NOW while
not turning off the display.  (The reason you might enjoy
doing this, in addition to the power saving, is that the
thinkpad becomes silent!).  There is a shareware program
called COLAP (short for color laptop utility) that runs
in DOS or a dos box in windows on dos.  It has an option
for toshiba machines, /T, that enables you, even on
the tp750, to press RIGHT-SHIFT with DEL keys to turn
off the hard disk.  In addition, it can dim or brighten
the VGA screen by altering vga color pallate.
I was pleasantly surprised that the TOSHIBA setting worked.
Time to start experimenting with other programs.




>I rarely explicitely enter suspend.  (I wish I could get
>a mode like standby where the disk spins down but the
>display stays on.)
>>you could always go to the settings and set the disk to
>>spin
>>down sooner than the screen.  That would sort of do it.
>>But
>>the main problem is that the screen is probably what sucks
>>up
>>most of the juice.  Another solution is to work off a RAM
>>disk... at least in DOS anyway...