Disabling CPU power management on T42

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admsteiner · #1 Post by **admsteiner** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 6:00 pm

Hi,

I have a T42. Even when plugged in, the computer sometimes goes at 200Mhz (lowest speed setting), other times it's at 5-600Mhz. Is there a way to set it up so that when plugged in it will always run at 1.7Ghz (Pentium M 735)

Thanks.

--Adam

eriqesque · #2 Post by **eriqesque** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 6:22 pm

You can change the power profile to always on or desktop
If you are using windws for those speeds XP is notorious about reporting the wrong speed AFAIK the lowest speed is 600.
You can also adjust the power in the BIOS.

G-Man · #3 Post by **G-Man** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 6:26 pm

You can also change it in Control Panel>Power Options>Power Schemes. Or use the Battery Maximiser.

Regards,
G-Man

benz · #4 Post by **benz** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 7:06 pm

What's a good, simple (and preferrably free) utility to measure the current CPU operating speed? Also, is there anything that is coded for the Pentium M chips, that can turn on/off speedstepping only?

dclee012 · #5 Post by **dclee012** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 7:13 pm

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=654

CantStopNow · #6 Post by **CantStopNow** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 7:55 pm

I suggest SpeedSwitchXP

http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp/

It will give you all of the control over XP's power schemes that is available, plus it will show you the current processor speed, etc.

admsteiner · #7 Post by **admsteiner** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 8:37 pm

Speedswitch needs to be updated, it's showing my CPU as a Banias and not a Dothan.

I do hope it is XP not displaying the proper information, with my laptop plugged in now it's showing 600Mhz

eriqesque · #8 Post by **eriqesque** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 9:37 pm

admsteiner wrote:Speedswitch needs to be updated, it's showing my CPU as a Banias and not a Dothan.

I do hope it is XP not displaying the proper information, with my laptop plugged in now it's showing 600Mhz

Trust me it's XP reporting incorrect operating speeds.
It has reported mine running as slow as 75Mhz and everything in between.

admsteiner · #9 Post by **admsteiner** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 10:05 pm

Yep. I went ahead and downloaded Intel's utility and it reported the correct speed.

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