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Name: coolzilla
Date: August 30, 2008 at 06:26:51 Pacific
Subject: CPU Runs slow after upgrade Dothan
OS: XP3
CPU/Ram: SL7SL
Model/Manufacturer: 2375pu
Comment:

Did a upgrade on my 2375pu T42 running XP3 with 1Gig of ram. had a 1.7 SL7EP. Got a SL7SL 2.13 Dothan Did what you do to install the CPU. Started up laptop and that all went fine. Then did some checking and a found PC Wizard and run test found that the Sl7SL was running at 598.6Mhz? The ac adapter is hooked in check the bios and is set to max performance. Checked the CPU with PC Doctor and everything passed? Any help would be great thanks...


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Response Number 1
Name: jam
Date: August 30, 2008 at 07:00:51 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Does your ThinkPad support 533MHz FSB? If not, you just downgraded the CPU.

The 1.7GHz runs at 17 x 100. The 2.13 GHz runs at 16 x 133. If your lappie only supports 100MHz (400MHs FSB), the best it will do is 1.6GHz (16 x 100). You lost 100MHz overall, thus it was a downgrade.

"If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions" - Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) in Pulp Fiction


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Response Number 2
Name: coolzilla
Date: August 30, 2008 at 07:22:09 Pacific
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General Information :
Real Frequency : 598.06 MHz
Multiplier : 6x
Low/High Multiplier : 6x / 16x
Multiplier Locked : Yes
Marketing Frequency : 2133.44 MHz

Front Side Bus Information :
Bus Speed : 99.7 MHz
FSB Frequency : 398.7 MHz (QDR)

Initial Frequencies :
Frequency : 2133 MHz
Bus Speed : 133.34 MHz (QDR)
Multiplier : 16x

Control Clock Frequency :
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) : Yes - Enabled
C1E - Enhanced Halt Mode : No
Dynamic FSB : No
Dynamic Acceleration (IDA) : No

Thermal Information :
Thermal Design Power : 3 W
Core Power : 0.84 W (estimated)
Thermal control TM1 : Yes - Enabled
Thermal control TM2 : Yes - Enabled
Thermal Control Circuit : Yes
Digital Thermal Sensor : No
Clock Modulation (ODCM) En... No

Processor Performance Information :
Throttle Mode AC : None
Throttle Mode DC : Constant
Current Configuration : None
Throttle : 598 MHz

Processor Power Management Information :
Processor Throttling : Yes
Throttle Range : 25% - 100%
Active Power Scheme : High Battery Performance
General Information :
NorthBridge : Intel i855PM
SouthBridge : 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge

NorthBridge Information :
Architecture : HUB
Manufacturer : Intel (IBM)
Revision : A3
Bus Speed : 99.7 MHz
FSB Frequency : 398.7 MHz (QDR)
FSB max. Support : 400 MHz
RAM max. Support : DDR (266 MHz)

Memory Information :
Type : DDR-SDRAM PC2700
Frequency : 166.1 MHz
DRAM/FSB Ratio : 5/3
Activated Channels : Single
ECC Diagnostic : YesMode
CAS Latency (tCL) : 2.5 clocks
RAS to CAS (tRCD) : 3 clocks
RAS Precharge (tRP) : 3 clocks
Cycle Time (tRAS) : 7 clocks
Read Delay (tRD) : 4 clocks

Is there anyway that the Multiplier could be wrong?


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Response Number 3
Name: jam
Date: August 30, 2008 at 07:44:19 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Dude, what is the point of all that info? Bite the bullet, admit you made a mistake & swap CPUs again. The Intel i855PM chipset only supports 400MHz FSB. The 2.13GHz Dothan is a 533MHz FSB CPU with a multiplier of 16x. It will NOT run at 2.13GHz in that laptop! At best, it will run at 1.6GHz (16 x 100)...your old CPU ran at 1.7GHz. You lost 100MHz with this "upgrade", not to mention any money you wasted on the CPU. Go back to the old 1.7GHz.

http://www.intel.com/products/noteb...

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Response Number 4
Name: coolzilla
Date: August 30, 2008 at 08:29:16 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Ok i thought there might be something but i guess not. Oh well did not lose a lot a money will put the old CPU back in it just stinks!!!
Thanks for your help...


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Response Number 5
Name: pingwin321
Date: September 17, 2008 at 04:40:49 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Ehm... It seems that everything with your processor is fine. To extend the battery worktime, Intel included a SpeedStep technology into its processors. When your laptop is "idle" (e.g. no power consuming software running, like video processing for example), the processor speed is set up to 600Mhz. It's the lowest value of SpeedStep. When you run something that needs more power (games?), you will see the processor speed going up.

Everything is just right... Except of the fact that the new processor has a 533MHz bus, so it is slower in T4x than the previous one, indeed. To upgrade the system you should look for SL7V3 processor (Dothan 2.1GHz, 400MHz bus, micro-fPga socket).


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