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xp misreports cpu speed sp2 update
Name: Andrew0547 Date: May 22, 2005 at 02:19:54 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: 1 GHz, 256MB
Comment:
hey all,
When I installed service pack 2 on my laptop, i looked in system properties and it misreports my cpu speed. It is a 1GHz celeron and it is reporting it as 306MHz. There has gotta be something wrong with that. Could it be something to do with service pack 2? Andrew.
Name: Chuck 2 Date: May 22, 2005 at 04:18:11 Pacific
Reply:
Possible to be caused by SP2. Just to say, some Windows Updates can cause other problems to happen in XP. For example: If I install the IE 6 Security Update Q832894, I then find that all the Help Topics were gone in Windows HELP Index. All came back when I removed "Internet Explorer Q832894" from Add/Remove Programs list.
Name: Bryco Date: May 22, 2005 at 05:21:41 Pacific
Reply:
It is possible that your CPU speed is adjusting for the running task or tasks?
Try running a couple of programs or several like video files and then check the speed by looking in Start, Run, msinfo32. Look on it's first screen. I believe this utility actually measures the current speed of the processor.
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