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pentium m-full speed?

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ebasol1

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My cousin just got an x40 with the 1.2ghz pentium m chip. For some reason, the speed reported in "System" in the control panel never shows 1200mhz. It sometimes shows 298, sometimes 598, but never 1200. We've tried plugging it in, and it just sits at 598. It is recognized as a 1200mhz part by the OS. How do you get these procs to run at full speed?

Thanks
 
You can either have them set the power profile to Home/Office or download Speedswitch XP To give a little bit more control over the speedstep process.
Just also keep in mind that windows is notorious for reporting the wrong clock speed.
 
thanks for the reply. Will that speedswitch report the correct speed? What's the best way to see the correct speed?
 
if windows isnt reporting the correct speed.. does that mean its not using the correct speed?

IE, it only thinks you have a 598mhz processor.. so thats all it uses?
 
we tried that tool, and it wasn't able to read the current speed of the proc. It was able to detect the max speed though. The system icon still reported it as 598, even witht he power profile set to Home/Office. Any other suggestions?
 
You need to use the speedswitch profiles that come with the program and the set it to maximum performance within speedswitch and then the proc. will run at full speed
It still may read like 2 or 3 mhz off (ie a 1.6 might report as 1597)
And as for windows reporting the wrong speed that's a windows and speedstep thing they don't play perfectly together
 
The pentium m notebooks change there speed based on load. When they are not doing anything the system clocks them down to 600mhz to save power and reduce heat. Most systems based off them do this even if the notebook is plugged in to the wall. If you run something like prime95 you should see it hit full speed.
 
it's not necessary to download anything else.


the battery maximiser (the green thing next to the taskbar that shows battery life) will allow you to select full speed.

Just look for the profile "disable shut off timers".

You now have the system running at full speed, even on batteries.

(at least, this has worked on all my thinkpads)
 
Run Prime 95 and monitor the speed with WCPUID's wcpuclk.exe.

or

In Speedswitch XP go to "Options" and select "Read CPU speed" "Realtime speed calculation".
 
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