October 1st, 2008, 01:29 AM
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i have a dell inspiron 9300 with Intel 1.73 GHz centrino but now it shows for clock speed that it is only 220 MHz i don't know what happen but i really need help on trying to fix this. does anybody out there have a idea how i could fix this problem. the computer is really slow and doesn't do anything that it use to do.
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October 1st, 2008, 07:20 AM
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Does this only happen on battery power?
Look in the bios to see if there is a "load default settings" option.
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October 1st, 2008, 08:52 PM
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it happens with plugged in or on battery i have reset it on bios and still the same issue
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October 1st, 2008, 08:54 PM
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do you know any software i can use on it to speed it up? | |
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October 1st, 2008, 09:30 PM
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Ehh you shouldn't need software to speed it back up, does this only happen when the pc is idle or does it happen all the time? Speed step drops the cpu power to conserve battery life but it should pick the speed back up when its needed, and it shouldn't slow the cpu down when its on AC power.
In the bios there should be an option to turn off speed stepping, and then in the control panel you need to set your power management settings to always on I think.
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October 1st, 2008, 09:44 PM
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Just a thought, but have you done a virus scan lately?
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October 2nd, 2008, 02:12 PM
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it happens all the time and for the bios i have already set and reset it and nothing has changed Quote:
Originally Posted by RicheemxX  Ehh you shouldn't need software to speed it back up, does this only happen when the pc is idle or does it happen all the time? Speed step drops the cpu power to conserve battery life but it should pick the speed back up when its needed, and it shouldn't slow the cpu down when its on AC power.
In the bios there should be an option to turn off speed stepping, and then in the control panel you need to set your power management settings to always on I think. | | |
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October 2nd, 2008, 02:14 PM
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i have reinstalled windows and yes i have a virus scan on it, i have totally formated my harddrives on it and reinstalled and so on but nothing helps Quote:
Originally Posted by videoman1994 Just a thought, but have you done a virus scan lately? | | |
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