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Subject: Re: Inspiron 8200 Won't Boot at Max Speed, no APM
From: Fish <fish@fish-mail.com>
To: Thierry Thomas <thierry@pompo.net>
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On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 21:10, Thierry Thomas wrote:
> Le Mar  4 mar 03 à  4:14:06 +0100, Mike Brown <mwbrown@halfzero.net>
>  écrivait :
> > 
> > All I can do is go in to the bios and disable speedstep.  As that is
> > what allows the change of speed, disabling it naturally gets rid of the
> > problem.  However, this increases how much power the computer uses, and
> > keeps it running hotter than normal.  I'd really like to find a better
> > fix than this.
> 
> About SpeedStep, my BIOS says:
> When disabled is selected, the system is placed in the *lowest*
> performance state available...

D'oh!  I kept reading that backwards, that it was set to highest
performance.  Okay, thanks a lot.  Note: Don't disable SpeedStep.

Fish


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