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processor Mhz
Name: sirfeck Date: November 6, 2004 at 19:04:51 Pacific OS: win98se CPU/Ram: intel p3/256mb
Comment:
Hello all, i've just installed WinXP Pro on my HP Pavilion N5390 laptop and i've found something very unusual happening here. When i entered the first time after installation into Control Panel-System the General Tab was reporting 500Mhz, when my Pentium 3 processor actually works at 900Mhz. After a few restarts due to the installation of several softwares i checked this figure again and guess what??, it was on 896Mhz (a lot closer to the number i was expecting), i wanna know if there's any reason to explain why i got this 500Mhz and if there's any chance that this evil number will drop again from 896 to 500. Finally, why this isn't 900Mhz??.
Name: FJ Date: November 6, 2004 at 21:15:24 Pacific
Reply:
896 MHz is about the correct reading. The reason for the short reading at first is the unit simply hadn't updated its statistics yet.
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Response Number 2
Name: Dog Date: November 7, 2004 at 00:03:05 Pacific
Reply:
Some processors have dynamic switching/stepping. You will especially find it on laptops, whereby they will switch between speeds to keep heat to a minimum. There is a utility called SpeedswitchXP that may help you out. If you go here http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp/index.html it might explain more
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