hekg Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 I'm running Kalyway 10.5.2 on my Dell Inspiron 8600 but Leopard shows it as a Mac Pro. Plugged into the power adapter the system works perfectly but when I unplug it and run on battery power it goes completely insane and becomes unstable and unusable. How can I fix this? Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Yes... like 90% of Leopard systems think they are mac pros due to a special SMBIOS.kext made by the devs... I believe there are also one that make it say MacBook out there too.. I dunno why you're having power management issues though, sorry. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hekg Posted July 28, 2008 Author Share Posted July 28, 2008 Yes it's only when I go on battery power. The system takes forever to startup then it freezes and when I click on a dock item it bounces really fast and the application will open minutes later .. it's all very bizarre. But again, I go on AC power and everything works beautifully but unfortunately that means that I can't ever go mobile. If anybody can help me resolve this issue I would greatly appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhai Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 If anybody can help me resolve this issue I would greatly appreciate it. Try to change profile on Energy Saver to Better Performance when on Battery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hekg Posted July 29, 2008 Author Share Posted July 29, 2008 I have no 'battery' setting at all in my energy settings. It thinks that my laptop is a desktop so there is no reference to battery power at all which is what's causing all the problems. I was actually running 10.5.1 and when I upgraded to 10.5.2 it goes to the black "hold down your power button to restart" screen unless I start it up plugged into the AC adapter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisdarl Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 Mine didn't know about a Battery until I isntalled the PowerManagement.bundle for Leapord patch. Might be worth a try Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hekg Posted August 4, 2008 Author Share Posted August 4, 2008 Thanks. I installed the powermanagment bundle and after rebooting got suck at the "press restart button screen". Then I restarted with -V and it worked. Go figure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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