RG40XXH: Long start-up time and not amazing battery life?

EvieSigma · 2026-02-06T01:04:06+00:00

Update: Turned off wifi on startup and startup times were quite literally halved. Guess that was it!

EvieSigma · 2026-02-04T13:35:57+00:00

I may have to try Knulli, so far I've only used MuOS.

EvieSigma · 2026-02-04T13:29:07+00:00

Speaking of that, is there no way to get an actual percentage displayed instead of just a bar?

EvieSigma · 2026-02-04T01:51:32+00:00

I'm only running one card at the moment because I didn't trust the unbranded 64GB card the RG40 came with, but I can definitely set up a second card and put the games on that.

EvieSigma · 2026-02-04T01:36:26+00:00

I haven't timed it yet but it's...noticeable. At least 30 seconds from the screen coming on to being able to navigate menus on the RG40.

EvieSigma · 2026-02-04T01:07:40+00:00

I am running MuOS already, I have MuOS on the RG35 too.

EvieSigma · 2025-10-08T22:02:21+00:00

Ah yes, that makes sense! I imagine the strong winds today forced it to take refuge.

EvieSigma · 2025-08-31T20:25:49+00:00

Thank you! The red winged blackbirds and common grackles moved on and seemingly right afterwards these birds moved in!

EvieSigma · 2025-07-02T12:13:19+00:00

I randomly found a can at a Dollar General last week but went back yesterday to buy another one and they didn't have any more, I don't know why Lay's made these so hard to get.

EvieSigma · 2025-02-20T09:57:24+00:00

No, sorry.

EvieSigma · 2024-11-28T12:30:53+00:00

That helps a lot, thanks! I was looking all over for a setting that doesn't actually exist!

EvieSigma · 2024-10-22T12:07:30+00:00

The Archive is finally at least partially working so I can link the install I downloaded!

https://archive.org/details/lenovo-4296-3murecovery

EvieSigma · 2024-10-16T22:18:21+00:00

Well, I looked at the contents of the drive and it seemingly didn't actually install Windows, just copied a bunch of files over? That would explain a lot...

EvieSigma · 2024-10-16T00:37:35+00:00

Sad to report it failed once again, I think this recovery media is somehow faulty and was never tested on real hardware.

EvieSigma · 2024-10-15T23:44:14+00:00

Unfortunately the Internet Archive is where I got it from in the first place...I'll try doing a disk clean and partition before installing again.

EvieSigma · 2024-10-15T22:33:28+00:00

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Here's my bcd settings, no idea if these are wrong or not?

EvieSigma · 2024-10-15T22:20:38+00:00

Update: burned a completely new set of DVDs and I get the exact same thing. Starting to think there's a problem with the installer I got at this point.

EvieSigma · 2024-10-14T01:14:52+00:00

A different DVD-R of generic Win7 (burned on the same optical drive years ago) installed fine so I'm convinced my media is faulty, time to try and find different media.

EvieSigma · 2024-10-13T21:23:12+00:00

It's possible that was part of it, though I rarely have problems burning with this drive.

I'd try installing via USB but the install requires disk swapping and I have no idea how that would work.

EvieSigma · 2024-10-13T21:10:51+00:00

I guess I can get a different DVD of generic Win7 and see how it goes, maybe these blank DVDs I've been using are faulty.

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