Hi! If you want to use FreeDOS on 10+ year old laptops and reduce heat and power consumption, then you may want to use FDAPM APMDOS (or similar FDAPM settings) and maybe even something like FDAPM SPEED4 to reduce CPU speed via ACPI control if your ACPI tables are simple enough for FDAPM. You may want to read the FDAPM docs first.
If anything crashes, you can keep the power button pressed for several seconds to force a power off. Test the settings before you add them to your autoexec or config, or use boot menus, F5 or F8 to selectively skip some steps at boot. Regards, Eric PS: Using idlehalt and FDAPM at the same time would be somewhat redundant, but should not cause other problems. IDLEHALT uses no memory, FDAPM does not need much either.
Thanks a lot, Rugxulo. I have a few older laptops. The newest one is about 10 years old. Although I can run light versions of Linux correctly but I love the immediacy of FreeDos. The only drawback I find with FreeDos is that It use the full power of the CPU and my laptops get hot. I've tried to solve this problem with IDLEHALT=-1 and a laptop cooling pad, with some success. In any case, I don't like to spend long hours sitting in front of the computer and I prefer to work in short periods, alternating between reading or walking, so I think I've solved this problem of overheating. When I have the budget, I'm thinking of buying an inexpensive PC with a processor that works well with FreeDos and doesn't get hot. I don't know if one exists. Thanks for your suggestion about RAM Drive. I'll use it. Thanks again, Rugxulo. Thanks FreeDos!!! Ramón Riera
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