Answer» Hello guys.... Great forum here, great job. Unfortunately, my first POST is about a problem i am having. I have this acer Aspire 5942g. The power management button on the upper right or the program or both (?) does not seem to work. I have of course launch manager and power management programs installed. When i press the button, it does LIGHT up green, but i have no indication on the screen like i have when i ACTIVATE wlan or bluetooth. When the drivers of the powersmart manager are uninstalled the button does not light up green when i press it, so it seems that the drivers partially work. Also, nothing changes in my power settings nor the screen brightens down, no SIGN that it works. Actions i took so far: I uninstalled and installed both programs, and i run them as admin. I installed first the launch manager and then the power management and the opposite. Nothing changed. I GO to c: program files:acer:acer powersmart manager and try to open the right exe file which i think is ePowerMsg but then i get an error message saying that the element ePowerMsg stopped working. The window is this: http://img219.images...52/16279115.png Is this the right exe? I tried with ac only, ac and battery, battery only, same results. What can i do now? Please some help... The picture in the previous post was not visible. Here it is. http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/7852/16279115.png
I found something that may help members that have the knowledge. I go to c: ProgramData: OEM: Power Management: Log There i found a notepad file which had these written:
04122010_141310 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - BEGIN 04122010_141310 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - END 04122010_141310 | DefaultPowerOption | info | Battery button supported 04122010_141312 | DefaultPowerOption | error | PowerWriteACValueIndex(NULL,&GUID_MIN_POWER_SAVINGS,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEX_SUBGROUP,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING, DEFAULT_MIN_AC_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING),The operation completed successfully.
04122010_141312 | DefaultPowerOption | error | PowerWriteDCValueIndex(NULL,&GUID_MIN_POWER_SAVINGS,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEX_SUBGROUP,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING, DEFAULT_MIN_DC_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING),The operation completed successfully.
04122010_141312 | DefaultPowerOption | error | PowerWriteACValueIndex(NULL,&GUID_TYPICAL_POWER_SAVINGS,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEX_SUBGROUP,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING, DEFAULT_TYPICAL_AC_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTI NG),The operation completed successfully.
04122010_141312 | DefaultPowerOption | error | PowerWriteDCValueIndex(NULL,&GUID_TYPICAL_POWER_SAVINGS,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEX_SUBGROUP,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING, DEFAULT_TYPICAL_DC_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTI NG),The operation completed successfully.
04122010_141312 | DefaultPowerOption | error | PowerWriteACValueIndex(NULL,&GUID_MAX_POWER_SAVINGS,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEX_SUBGROUP,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING, DEFAULT_MAX_AC_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING),The operation completed successfully.
04122010_141312 | DefaultPowerOption | error | PowerWriteDCValueIndex(NULL,&GUID_MAX_POWER_SAVINGS,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEX_SUBGROUP,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING, DEFAULT_MAX_DC_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING),The operation completed successfully.
04122010_141312 | DefaultPowerOption | info | Intel VGA 05052010_131559 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - BEGIN 05052010_131559 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - END 05052010_131559 | DefaultPowerOption | info | Battery button supported 05052010_131600 | DefaultPowerOption | error | PowerWriteACValueIndex(NULL,&GUID_MIN_POWER_SAVINGS,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEX_SUBGROUP,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING, DEFAULT_MIN_AC_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING),05052010_132854 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - BEGIN 05052010_132854 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - END 05052010_132854 | DefaultPowerOption | info | Battery button supported 05052010_132855 | DefaultPowerOption | error | PowerWriteACValueIndex(NULL,&GUID_MIN_POWER_SAVINGS,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEX_SUBGROUP,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING, DEFAULT_MIN_AC_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING),05052010_164137 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - BEGIN 05052010_164137 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - END 05052010_164137 | DefaultPowerOption | info | Battery button supported 05052010_164138 | DefaultPowerOption | error | PowerWriteACValueIndex(NULL,&GUID_MIN_POWER_SAVINGS,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEX_SUBGROUP,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING, DEFAULT_MIN_AC_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING),05052010_175926 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - BEGIN 05052010_175926 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - END 05052010_175926 | DefaultPowerOption | info | Battery button supported 05052010_175927 | DefaultPowerOption | error | PowerWriteACValueIndex(NULL,&GUID_MIN_POWER_SAVINGS,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEX_SUBGROUP,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING, DEFAULT_MIN_AC_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING),05052010_183625 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - BEGIN 05052010_183625 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - END 05052010_183625 | DefaultPowerOption | info | Battery button supported 05052010_183626 | DefaultPowerOption | error | PowerWriteACValueIndex(NULL,&GUID_MIN_POWER_SAVINGS,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEX_SUBGROUP,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING, DEFAULT_MIN_AC_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING),05052010_185323 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - BEGIN 05052010_185323 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - END 05052010_185323 | DefaultPowerOption | info | Battery button supported 05052010_185324 | DefaultPowerOption | error | PowerWriteACValueIndex(NULL,&GUID_MIN_POWER_SAVINGS,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEX_SUBGROUP,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING, DEFAULT_MIN_AC_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING),05052010_192045 | DefaultPowerOption | info | Battery button NOT supported 05052010_192046 | DefaultPowerOption | error | PowerWriteACValueIndex(NULL,&GUID_MIN_POWER_SAVINGS,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEX_SUBGROUP,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING, DEFAULT_MIN_AC_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING),05052010_192926 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - BEGIN 05052010_192926 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - END 05052010_192926 | DefaultPowerOption | info | Battery button supported 05052010_192927 | DefaultPowerOption | error | PowerWriteACValueIndex(NULL,&GUID_MIN_POWER_SAVINGS,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEX_SUBGROUP,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING, DEFAULT_MIN_AC_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING),05052010_203551 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - BEGIN 05052010_203552 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - END 05052010_203552 | DefaultPowerOption | info | Battery button supported 05052010_203553 | DefaultPowerOption | error | PowerWriteACValueIndex(NULL,&GUID_MIN_POWER_SAVINGS,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEX_SUBGROUP,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING, DEFAULT_MIN_AC_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING),05052010_225224 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - BEGIN 05052010_225224 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - END 05052010_225224 | DefaultPowerOption | info | Battery button supported 05052010_225225 | DefaultPowerOption | error | PowerWriteACValueIndex(NULL,&GUID_MIN_POWER_SAVINGS,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEX_SUBGROUP,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING, DEFAULT_MIN_AC_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING),05062010_004748 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - BEGIN 05062010_004748 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - END 05062010_004748 | DefaultPowerOption | info | Battery button supported 05062010_004749 | DefaultPowerOption | error | PowerWriteACValueIndex(NULL,&GUID_MIN_POWER_SAVINGS,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEX_SUBGROUP,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING, DEFAULT_MIN_AC_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING),05062010_163716 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - BEGIN 05062010_163716 | DefaultPowerOption | info | CheckTrayReg() - END 05062010_163716 | DefaultPowerOption | info | Battery button supported 05062010_163717 | DefaultPowerOption | error | PowerWriteACValueIndex(NULL,&GUID_MIN_POWER_SAVINGS,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEX_SUBGROUP,&GUID_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING, DEFAULT_MIN_AC_SEARCH_INDEXER_SETTING),
And here is a print screen because it is not very well written in the post.
If someone knows what to do....
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