T20 basic questions

[awdark]

Can you give me your thoughts?

The bios sees the CPU as a 850mhz P3

Windows 2000 sp4 sees it as 700mhz
Knoppix sees it as a 700mhz (Auditor edition)
Hirins boot CD sees it as 700mhz.

One of the boot info tools says
PIIIe 700 (7x100)
Original Clock Speed: 700mhz
Coppermine A80526
Stepping cC0
Max Frequency 700

I don't get it... will a bios update help? Im at 1.11 or something and my battery should come soon so I can do that later.

I know its not an issue of my AC adapter because I have a 56watt adapter and the bottom of the ThinkPad shows that it should be using a 56 watt adapter.

What am I doing wrong?

[JHEM]

What am I doing wrong?

Nothing. The CPU is Speed Stepping as designed.

What's the story on this T20? I.e., model number?

I thought all of the T20s were either PIII 650, 700 or 750, not 850.

Regards,

James

[awdark]

But even when I run prime95 or just use the computer that program never shows a jump above 700mhz (program being the one on the japanese geocities page with the speed, temp, and charge rate)

Im considering putting in the 700mhz CPU (I have a 700 and a 850) but I don't want to dismantle it too often because it does work now... just 150mhz slower... and in P3 terms thats a lot.

[Orevin]

A Bios update might help, someone else here resolved the problem with a fresh installation of Windows (XP, I think). Try Speedswitch to set your CPU speed. There is also a tool from Intel, which reports the actual and the expected frequency of the CPU

[awdark]

Story on T20

Purchased broken.
Purchased new motherboard from Ebay.

Came with 700mhz cpu in socket, and 256mb PC100

Also included 850mhz CPU and T21 hsf.

So when I rebuilt it, I put in the 850 instead of the 700.

Bios actually shows 850mhz in the main bios screen. Nothing else sees it.

Grr Intel Frequency utility says
Report frequency 700mhz 100bus
Expected Frequency 700mhz 100bus

Odd because I know its a 850 cpu.

Control Panel shows Running on AC power, Speedstep Battery optimized performance.
The bios has everything I can find set to maximum CPU speed.

The battery will come later today so hopefully that will fix it. That and a bios upgrade.

Oh and yes, speedswitch doesn't run on win2k. The bios I have doesn't allow me to run xp either.
Notebook hardware monitor for Centrinos actually does run but doens't let me access anything. Other than the temps

[awdark]

It was all about the battery. No battery = run in battery mode. Battery = maximum performance. Guess no battery messes with ACPI.