What is "POWER MONITOR CIRCUIT" SETTING IN BIOS ??

[Eurometal]

"Power Monitor Circuit":

Thanks HP for never explaining what it does!

This is a setting in Elitebooks' BIOS - wasted many hours to find out what it does, left enabled for now.  Puzzled.

Anyone knows exactly what it does?

Don't tell me to leave at default ("enabled"), unlike some consumers I am not a dummy & configure settings to my needs, not defaults.

Engineer here, so indeed I have a theory what it does (possibly supporting battery health), but it remains a theory, why should we guess?

Absolutely NOTHING at HP.com or Internet in general.

Service Manual tells zilch (nothing), it mentions you can "enable" or "disable" it, so what?

It doesn't tell what exactly function it performs.

It's like a nuclear warhead with a special button - you can enable or disable it, but not know what it does.

[rabeir]

Hello

I'm a HP Preffered Partner and user of a ProBook 6450b.

My notebook also has this BIOS setting and from what I can tell you this is what it does:

Left enabled it {Content Removed: Language Filter Evasion} up HP Power Assistant to the point it won't display the battery usage and remaining time.

If disabled it passes the battery power usage to windows and then the reports of integrated windows gauges and hp power assistant becomes identical.

About what it should do, (maybe mine is defective)

I belive it helps monitor power usage of different built in devices, so it can report detailed stuff in HP power assistant software.

If you'd be nice to activate the setting, install the software and see if your's functions correctly I'd be very gratefull.

All the best,

and many thanks

[Eurometal]

Thanks, you're the only one to shine some light on it sofar, but I hoped for HP official to admit there's NOT a SINGLE word of explanation in FSM (Factory Service Manual) or regular User's guide, or in Internet search.

Why does HP make it mysterious.

I understand your answer clearly, but just hope for HP official to explain it 100% and quit hiding.

So I re-posted on 22 Septemebr - "HP Experts Day" and not one of their "experts" answered question.

You're the only one to mention approximately what Circuit does.

We don't need an explanation of obvious settings e.g. "Fan Always ON while on AC" - such settings are understandable by even m0r0ns, but "PowerMonitorCircuit" could be anything imaginable yet no word of what it does in docs ior Internet search.

Yes I sound "pedantic", or "particular" but I like to know my settings 100% b/c it's a professional thing.

Shoemakers know all about shoes, and us engineers sometiems like to set EACH SETTING properly, while much population just leaves defaults in effect & then wodners why computers are so painful.

So I am very particular and custimize every settings, one of those people who never choose "express etup" over "custom setup" when installing software, so I must know what PowerMonitoring does.

Anyways,. I vented out.

Hope an HP employee simply does the right thing & answers here clearly what this Setting does, officially and add same into Manuals so people like us don't ask next time.

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Now the other request:

You asked me to install & check PowerAssistant, etc.  Sorry brother/sister, I am against installing & uninstalling bloatware.  When I get a new machine, I wipe its storage (HDD/SSD) clean and reinstall - this time avoiding bloatware, games & "helpful utilities".  So I can't install PowerAssitant.  To me it is rubbish. I am fine with Windows7 Ultimate built in tool or no tool at all, so I suggest you do same & forget it comletely, use WIndows built in Battery gauge.  Nobody needs 0.1% precision in this department.

You'd be surprised how i turned around a sluggish consumer dv-series HP laptop back in year 2008, after killing bloateare, clean install and doing things my way, not bloatway, it became a workhorse on which I did much Military electromechanical designs, 3D MCAD & Electrical circuit simulations.

And installing PowerAssitant, then uninstalling it, is not fun b/'c it is also "bloatware" 🙂