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billcrusher   02-22-2009 at 05:31:52 PM

I have a Dell Latitude C640 laptop. Well I have a 2.20 GHz Processor in there, but it only shows that it is running at 1.20 GHz, How do I fix that problem? I have a GB of 2100 ram in there and a 250 Gb hard drive. Please help me out with this problem.

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Bronze Laptops badge frozenlead   02-22-2009 at 07:28:14 PM
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Are you on a power profile that reduces the clockspeed? Notebooks throttle their processors to save power.

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Bronze Laptops badge lostandwandering   02-22-2009 at 07:30:33 PM
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Yeah, if you have Intel SpeedStep enable (it will be by default) your CPU will throttle down when it is not under heavy (30-40% usage) load. As soon as you start doing something that requires CPU power, it will throttle back up. Nothing to worry about.

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cheaptofix   02-23-2009 at 11:04:56 AM
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go to the bios and load defaults.

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billcrusher   02-23-2009 at 03:05:21 PM
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frozenlead wrote :

Are you on a power profile that reduces the clockspeed? Notebooks throttle their processors to save power.




Thank you very understandable

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