Reinstalled, no more speedstep at 200MHz?

[Kenn]

I just recently wiped my HD and performed a clean XP SP2 install. I manually reinstalled the IBM utilities I needed (Intel chipset Support II, GV3 Processor Driver, Battery Maximiser, etc.)

In fact, I reinstalled everything except for Access IBM, Hydravision, Modem, Keyboard Customizer, Presentation Manager, Ultranav Wizard and Accessibilitiy Features, Intel Proset, and FullScreen Magnifier.

However, whenever I go off AC, while my Maximiser profile has my CPU set to "Very Slow" and System Properties shows the CPU going down to 593MHz, but not 198Mhz, which is what "Very Slow" throttled down to before. Is there some software or setting I'm missing that is required to enable the slower speedstep setting, or did they nix the slower speed in a recent update to Battery Maximiser?

Thanks,
Kenn

[dash7540]

Nixed indeed I think.

"Very Slow" only goes down to ~594MHz on mine now, whereas before it went much lower.

I don't see what the point of that is, since "Very Slow" is now the same as "Slow".

Hopefully it's a bug and they will fix it on the next release (or then again not.)

[Kenn]

Nixed indeed I think.

"Very Slow" only goes down to ~594MHz on mine now, whereas before it went much lower.

Just what I was afraid of.

I don't see what the point of that is, since "Very Slow" is now the same as "Slow".

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Any idea which piece of software controls the high/low speed settings? If it's Maximiser, I'll probably go back to the old version, but I'm going to run some informal battery benchmarks first, to see if there's a significant difference between 200 and 600.

[juancferrer]

Pentium M cpus can't go below 600mhz. If battery maximiser ever reported any speed below 600mhz, it was wrong.

[sugo]

GV3 Processor Driver? what for?

Personally I prefer generic, non-proprietary any day. The default SP2 cpu driver works great here. The fan doesn't come on all the time on AC.

[Kenn]

Pentium M cpus can't go below 600mhz. If battery maximiser ever reported any speed below 600mhz, it was wrong.

This was Windows System Properties reporting 198Mhz, but of course that could be wrong too.

What I do know is that whether it was 198Mhz or something else, the "very slow" setting used to be SIGNIFICANTLY slower than 600MHz on "slow." Just dragging windows across the screen or scrubbing the mouse along YzDock would stutter tremendously. Now, I can hardly tell the difference between AC and battery for these tasks.

In the end, it all depends on battery life. If I still get 3+ hours out of the 6 cell, I won't complain.