Date: 05 Mar 2003 09:16:16 -0800 From: Mike Brown <mwbrown@halfzero.net> To: Fish <fish@fish-mail.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Thierry Thomas <thierry@pompo.net>, Richard Arends <richard@unixguru.nl> Subject: Re: Inspiron 8200 Won't Boot at Max Speed, no APM Message-ID: <1046884576.611.11.camel@zero.halfzero.net> In-Reply-To: <1046893071.807.1.camel@current> References: <1046661890.763.3.camel@zero.halfzero.net> <20030303110645.E13252@mail.unixguru.nl> <1046688098.625.1.camel@zero.halfzero.net> <20030303122927.U13252@mail.unixguru.nl> <1046793151.755.29.camel@current> <1046747646.2630.2.camel@zero.halfzero.net> <20030305211016.GA60093@graf.pompo.net> <1046893071.807.1.camel@current>
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On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 11:37, Fish wrote: > 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 > Well apparently, my computer likes to play tricks on me. Even with smart cpu and speedstep disabled, I still get the problem. And although the computer is running at 1.2 GHz instead of it's designed clock speed. I think it might not be the processor at all. I only notice a performance drop when the fan comes on. I called the nice people at Dell, and not to my surprise, they had no idea what was going on, the representative I talked to told me to download the Processor Frequency ID Utility from Intel's website. It told me I was running at 1.20 Ghz out of 2.00 GHz and my bus speed was 398 MHz out of 400 MHz. That was pretty much the extent of the call, and he said he'd talk to the senior techs and get back to me if they thought of anything. After that was over, I decided to do some research for myself. I installed a couple programs from http://www.diefer.de/indexe.html I8KFanGUI shows a whole bunch of information. All temperature sensors, fan speeds and a nice little graph to see what's going on. I noticed that when the fans came on like they usually do, and the performance dropped, that the clock speed was the exact same. I really have no idea now, I was thinking about going back to 4.7 until 5.0-STABLE came out, but I don't think that would fix it. -Mike > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message -- "yayyy brainz" - lots of people :) "Your buttons click nice." - Rok "Those are Jesus sandals. I'm not Jesus!" - Rok "...and then you realize god gave you a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to use one at a time..." - robin williams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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