SpeedStep not working?

[jvarszegi]

Hi! I am the happy owner of a one-week-old T60. I have installed a few programs and patched up the system, and just noticed two things:

1) The processor speed is not reported when I view the system properties; this happens on battery and plugged in. I believe this was displayed correctly when I received the laptop.

2) The battery life on the six-cell battery has all of a sudden gone down to just about 3:45, whereas before it was closer to 5 hours. When I first received the laptop, I was getting between six and seven hours with the 6-cell and bay battery in.

What does this mean? How do I fix it? I don't know how to even troubleshoot this issue; I've never seen anything like it before. I tried reinstalling the Thinkpad power management driver, but that didn't change anything. As a last-ditch effort I will try restoring from the hidden partition, but I don't want to lose several days worth of effort installing stuff.

Thanks a lot.

P.S. I have antivirus installed, have no malware, etc. The machine is clean-- I just have some development tools and a couple of games installed.

[MIB]

try install notebook hardware control, then you will able to see the CPU speed and the wattage it is drawing.

[GomJabbar]

You can try Windows System Restore to revert to a time when your ThinkPad was working properly. Start > Help and Support > Pick a task > Undo changes to your computer with System Restore

[jvarszegi]

I've decided to just revert back to the factory install, install my programs again, and take a backup first thing. That was my plan this time, but I just wasn't done!

For what it's worth, I have a funny feeling that Bootvis screwed things up for me. I never got it to work, and it was after installing it that I first noticed that things weren't up to snuff. I uninstalled it, but that didn't fix things. I'll let you know how things are after the reinstall, minus Bootvis.