Vista Laptop Problems...

goosy22

goosy22

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i'm currently trying to run a copy of Vista Business on my Averatec laptop in the sig... and the only real trouble i'm having is that my CPU is stuck @ 803 Mhz... i'll try uploading a few pics in a second here... but it doesn't matter if i'm stressing the computer with multiple CPU hogging programs, the meter won't move...

is this a common problem with Vista? or should i contact Averatec? (all drivers and updates are the latest possible also, and AMD hasn't released a CPU optimizer to the best of my knowledge for Vista)...
 
Perhaps windows vista doesn't know how to deal with your amd cpu, i think most newer amd cpu's have their cool and quiet technology that automatically drops the clock speed in order to conserve power. It could also be that vista doesn't know that the clock speed auto adjusts so it may just be reporting the speed wrong. Do you actually notice any lag in performance.
 
elitehacker said:
Try to diasable CPU throttling and other power saving schemes.
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where's the options for "CPU throttling"? and my power plan is set to "High Performance"... i'm kinda waiting for AMD to put out drivers for it, hopefully that'll fix it right up.... or maybe Microsoft should put out updates to fix the CPU speed issues...
 
like i've said before do you actually notice any performance difference, if you don't then you're computer is probably just reporting the speed wrong when it's actually running the proper speed, if this is the case then iwouldn't worry about it, if it's not go into the bios and disbale cool and quiet and see if that makes and difference.
 
UPDATE: i've seemingly fixed my problem... i put the laptop into sleep-mode, woke it up, and it finally shows 1607.xx MHz... AMD Clock and CPU-Z confirm... why doesn't Vista pick up on it yet?
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well, by looking at your picture vista's reported speed is 803 mhz and the ht link reported by cpu z is 803mhz, so for some reason vista is reporting the HT link as the overall cpu speed. ?who knows? maybe vista thinks that's the cool thing to do, lol.
 
This might be stupid but have you ran the windows expirence and told it to remeasure your pc i had this problem and when i did that it registered the correct amounts...
 
AdmnPower said:
well, by looking at your picture vista's reported speed is 803 mhz and the ht link reported by cpu z is 803mhz, so for some reason vista is reporting the HT link as the overall cpu speed. ?who knows? maybe vista thinks that's the cool thing to do, lol.
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yeah, but when i run CPU-Z right away, (i'll try to post pictures) it reports the cpu speed as 803 also...

codeman0013 said:
This might be stupid but have you ran the windows expirence and told it to remeasure your pc i had this problem and when i did that it registered the correct amounts...
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yes...

EDIT: for some reason i can't reproduce my problem anymore... the windows thing reports it as 803 MHz, and AMD Clock and CPU-Z report the expected clock speed... i spose i'll let it go until it happens again ;)...
 
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AdmnPower said:
as long as your performance isn't lower than it should be why does it matter?
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i don't know for sure, i guess i just wanted to know if someone knew why it didn't work the right way the first time... :)...

but i figured out the culprit for anybody who wants to know/has the same problem...

whenever i shut my laptop all the way down, and start it from the POST, the cpu speed is locked at 803 MHz... but if i put it into sleep mode and then wake it up, it goes right back to 1.6 GHz... weird i know, but i guess i figured a solution out...
 
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