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How to turn off Speedstep?
Is there any way in Vista (32 bit) to turn off Intel’s Speedstep throttling?
Having spend a couple of hours going through Vista’s various and numerous options (power options and so on) as well as spending some time researching this on the net, I simply cannot find a way to turn speedstep off via the GUI. My BIOS gives me two options: “Off” which sure enough turns speedstep off, but sets the processors to run at minimum speed (1GHz), or “Enabled” which, well, enables speedstep. This used to be so easy in XP to turn off that I wonder why in Billy The Gates’ name it seems an impossibility under Vista. The mind boggles … or am I missing something here? All advice & help would be much appreciated. Relevant system info: Dell Precision M90, latest BIOS & drivers, Core2Duo T7400 |
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How to turn off Speedstep?
akita,
I don't know whether the following comments are helpful to you, but I found it on another forum and thought I'd pass it on: Use Vista's throttling. I had to live without Speedswitch when I switched to Vista (I'm back on XP now) simply because of the incompatibility that everyone here has. NHC bluescreens and CrystalCPUID doesn't work at all. Use the advanced power schemes in vista and run the CPU throttling at 50% (it'll clock itself down to the speedstep value, not the throttling). The the dumbest trick of all to get the throttling working (took me a week to figure this out ) put your computer into standby, and bring it back out, and your processor is now throttled. Changing the throttling in the power management can now change the speed on-the-fly too. However it can clock itself up to the full speed of the processor, speedstep on or not. From what I saw in the Internet, this speedstep is difficult or impossible to turn off. I'll look around some more. I've nothing better to do. A vendor is selling a utility called SpeedswitchXP, for managing the speedstep thing, but apparently no Vista version is yet available, if it ever will be. -- freddy "akita" wrote: Is there any way in Vista (32 bit) to turn off Intel’s Speedstep throttling? Having spend a couple of hours going through Vista’s various and numerous options (power options and so on) as well as spending some time researching this on the net, I simply cannot find a way to turn speedstep off via the GUI. My BIOS gives me two options: “Off” which sure enough turns speedstep off, but sets the processors to run at minimum speed (1GHz), or “Enabled” which, well, enables speedstep. This used to be so easy in XP to turn off that I wonder why in Billy The Gates’ name it seems an impossibility under Vista. The mind boggles … or am I missing something here? All advice & help would be much appreciated. Relevant system info: Dell Precision M90, latest BIOS & drivers, Core2Duo T7400 |
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How to turn off Speedstep?
akita,
I found the following comment made in response to a question similar to yours: you should switch your Vista's power plan to this one: You'll also need to go into advanced power plan settings and make sure that both "min" and "max" CPU states are set to 100%. I've concluded that manufactures of computers have made if hard to turn off speedstep so that users are forced to conserve power, thus also conserving battery life on laptops. Is any of this useful? -- freddy "akita" wrote: Is there any way in Vista (32 bit) to turn off Intel’s Speedstep throttling? Having spend a couple of hours going through Vista’s various and numerous options (power options and so on) as well as spending some time researching this on the net, I simply cannot find a way to turn speedstep off via the GUI. My BIOS gives me two options: “Off” which sure enough turns speedstep off, but sets the processors to run at minimum speed (1GHz), or “Enabled” which, well, enables speedstep. This used to be so easy in XP to turn off that I wonder why in Billy The Gates’ name it seems an impossibility under Vista. The mind boggles … or am I missing something here? All advice & help would be much appreciated. Relevant system info: Dell Precision M90, latest BIOS & drivers, Core2Duo T7400 |
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How to turn off Speedstep?
I was having a speed step issue on my Dell laptop. The AC charger is no longer identifying itself to the computer... it's probably a broken 1-Wire DS2501 id chip as described in http://www.laptop-junction.com/toast...r-id-chip-died ... Anyway, my laptop was running like crap, so I tried turning up the minimums to 100% on Vista, but it didn't seem to help. I tried installing RMClock and it reported that the cpu was running at 0.8Ghz instead of 1.4Ghz (T5270). I tried using the high performance settings on RMClock, but it didn't seem to help. Anyway, I checked out the BIOS and noticed that in the info section it said: Maximum CPU Frequency: 1.4Ghz Minimum CPU Frequency: 1.2Ghz Current CPU Frequency: 1.05Ghz ...so clearly something was still off. Anyway, I ignored the 'defaults to minimum' warning and turned off speedstep in the bios. When I turned Vista and RMClock back on, it now reports 1.40Ghz and everything is running smoothly again. -- docstout |