T21 only running at....

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montecarlo01ss · #1 Post by **montecarlo01ss** » Fri May 26, 2006 12:46 am

647MHz?? its a pentium III processor, why isnt it running at 800MHz? is windows xp really slowing it down that much or is it underclocked? it has 384mb of ram[/img]

skou · #2 Post by **skou** » Fri May 26, 2006 1:48 am

How good is your battery?

You need a running battery to get it to run at rated speed. (SpeedStep slows it down, without a battery, or with a dead battery.)

steve

Orevin · #3 Post by **Orevin** » Fri May 26, 2006 11:31 am

montecarlo01ss wrote:647MHz?? its a pentium III processor, why isnt it running at 800MHz?

This feature is called "Speedstep".

skou wrote:How good is your battery?

You need a running battery to get it to run at rated speed. (SpeedStep slows it down, without a battery, or with a dead battery.)

steve

If you are on ac power, the presence or condition of a battery does not matter.

Nolonemo · #4 Post by **Nolonemo** » Fri May 26, 2006 11:38 am

XP underreports the CPU speed on T22s, I expect it is the same on T21s.

Search my posts in the forum for a like to download the MobileMeter applet, which will show your true CPU speed (and temps)

shined · #5 Post by **shined** » Fri May 26, 2006 2:01 pm

Just one point.

If you are on ac power, the presence or condition of a battery does not matter.

Yes, it does. T2x require a battery to run at the higher clock even when it is AC powered.

montecarlo01ss · #6 Post by **montecarlo01ss** » Fri May 26, 2006 10:31 pm

so can i bump it up or no? and the battery currently in the laptop is dead, it only runs off of ac power, it turns off if it unplugs

skou · #7 Post by **skou** » Fri May 26, 2006 11:21 pm

Orevin wrote:
montecarlo01ss wrote:647MHz?? its a pentium III processor, why isnt it running at 800MHz?
This feature is called "Speedstep".

skou wrote:How good is your battery?

You need a running battery to get it to run at rated speed. (SpeedStep slows it down, without a battery, or with a dead battery.)

steve
If you are on ac power, the presence or condition of a battery does not matter.

Orevin, the status of the battery DOES matter! You need to have a GOOD battery installed, even if you are running on AC power!

steve

Orevin · #8 Post by **Orevin** » Fri May 26, 2006 11:34 pm

Well, then my T22 must be broken

. Speedstep works like it should, with good/dead/no battery, I just cheked it.

skou · #9 Post by **skou** » Fri May 26, 2006 11:49 pm

I just checked a T21, T22, and a T23.

The T23 would run at rated speed without a battery, but the rest wouldn't.

Of course, this was on W2000. YMMV.

steve

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