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green apple2
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April 11th, 2006 02:00
enabling speedstep
okay, i just finished reformatting my m170 and after installing all softwares and drivers, my cpu is always operating on full... tried to change my power settings and still no dice... checked bios and it stated as speedstep enabled.. i'm using i8kfangui to check my cpu... any advice out there?
green apple2
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Posted April 11th, 2006 14:00
tried home/ office desk... portable laptop... and everything else..still no dice.. i must add that i am using xp pro.. task manager reprts nothing.. 2%-4% when on the net... still cpu is clocked at 2ghz... does the m170 even suppose to use speedstep?mattsdaddy
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Posted April 11th, 2006 23:00
There is a patch from Dell for the speedstep and XP. Did you also update your BIOS to the latest version?green apple2
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Posted April 12th, 2006 01:00
downloaded the bios a05... looking for that dell patch for speedstep and xp...mattsdaddy
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Posted April 13th, 2006 00:00
The speedstep patch is not availible for your laptop, thought it was. Sorry about that.
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Posted April 11th, 2006 08:00