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Rene Van der Ve

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June 3rd, 2005 09:00

Problem with Speedstep > How to get it always on max?

Hi,
 
I have an autocad engineer with a problem. He uses his laptop (D610) to calculate some heavy drawings. The CPU, 1.86 GHz, runs normally at 800MHz. When he runs a heavy process in Autocad the process takes 1 minute to perform. When I however minimize Autocad it only takes 30 secs. I think that the processor does not switch to the max. It only switches when I ALT-Tab to another program or minimize autocad. Strange..
 
Is this a know problem? Can I set the CPU to run at 1.86 always? There is no BIOS option for this, and the power options does not solve this.
 
Thanks
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    gassefa

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    Posted June 15th, 2005 22:00

    1. turn on speedstep in the BIOS (power management group)

    2. under Display properties, screen saver tab, power options, set power schemes = always on and change settings to Never for 'turn off ...'

     

    now you should be running at full throttle all the time. You can check it by going to my computer, properties. there will be two speeds displayed, max speed and current speed. they should be the same.

    good luck.

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