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October 19th, 2004 01:00

Running 8600 full speed on Battery

I just purchased an Inspiron 8600 (Pentium M 1.6). Is there any way to have it run full speed off of battery instead of scaling. The scaling seems to not be working too well as certain programs I need to run are real slow off of battery, but as soon as I plug in the power cord they run perfectly fine.
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    PINE

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    Posted October 19th, 2004 01:00

    Did you try setting your power options to always on.
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    mattcowger

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    Posted October 19th, 2004 01:00

    SpeedSwitchXP
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    balaka4

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    Posted October 19th, 2004 01:00

    Tried both things. The computer reports that it's running at full speed, but I can clearly tell that the programs I run are not running the same speed as when the laptop is plugged in.
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    Posted October 19th, 2004 16:00

    What you need to do is go into the BIOS when your system first boots up and set the cpu to run at
    your maximum processer speed while using the battery.
    Craig 

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