Disabling Intel's speedsteps feature

Hi everyone,

As the title suggests, I'm trying to disable my processor's speedsteps feature. For some reasons (probably because my battery being dead) my PC is always running with speedsteps being turned on, which means it doesn't run at its highest speed. I've tried disabling speedsteps in my BIOS setup, as well as in XP (by setting the power scheme to 'Home/Office desk') without success. It seems like the processor's multiplier is stuck to 7.0 while it should be at 8.5 in order to get its max speed. And this problem only occurs in win xp (I've just tried installing win98, everthing was fine, processor was working at its max speed). Any help would be aprreciated...

PS: My CPU is a Pentium 3 Coppermine and the OS is Windows XP Pro SP2. Thanks in advance.

#381220

from my xperience, we should set the power scheme to 'always on' to get the highest speed all the time. im using pentium M. hope this can help u.:cool:

#381271

Yeah, that might work. I'm assuming you're actually running with just the battery, then, and not on AC power? If you're running on AC, try taking the battery out completely and see if that fools it into behaving.

lol

from my xperience

cute.

#381309