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P2 700MHz running at 38MHz
Name: Niall Date: January 11, 2002 at 17:08:25 Pacific
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I recently bought a second hand Dell with NT 4 istalled on it. I was'nt happy with it's performance (it had been used on a network). I decided to format it and losd windws 98. When I started this it loaded really slowly. Eventually (2 days later) when it was finished windows 98 ran so slowly. I checked it with a dignostic utility and it tells me the CPU is running at 38MHZ (its a P2 700Mhz chip). What's happening Thanks for any help.
Name: 666 Date: January 11, 2002 at 19:06:36 Pacific
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It could be a heat related problem, but Intel never made a pentium 2 700. Its a Pentium 3 based on the coppermine core.
It also can be bad ram, or even a bad motherboard
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Response Number 2
Name: Mark Date: January 12, 2002 at 02:11:03 Pacific
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are u sure its a P2 700mhz, im pretty sure that p2 goes up only to 450mhz, never seen any higher.
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Response Number 3
Name: niall Date: January 12, 2002 at 15:56:52 Pacific
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Excuse my ignorance. It is a Pentium 2 chip but obviously 450Mhz or lower but this still does not solve my problem as to why it is running at around 40MHz according to the dignostic software.
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Response Number 4
Name: Mark Date: January 13, 2002 at 00:32:15 Pacific
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maybe its your cooling problem on the cpu or maybe its your jumper settings on your mobo, thats the only guess i got on why its booting so low.
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Response Number 5
Name: Chris Date: January 16, 2002 at 22:34:05 Pacific
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It is not you laptop exactly, It is the way the software reads the processor, This happens to all of the laptops at my work, when ever we order new ones in we run a Diag. program to make sure we get what we ordered.......all the laptops always say 27Mhz or somthing that close......it has somthing to do with mobile processors.
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