Dell laptop clock speed problems...

[brain29]

My girlfriend has a fairly old Dell Latitude. Probably about 3 years old. Anyways, occasionally when I check it to see everything is running fine in system properties it says it is running at 867 mhz. It has a P3 or P4 at 1.6 ghz. It is always plugged in when it happens and I don't know of and can't seem to find a program installed that would scale it down. Anybody have any ideas.?

 

[arsbanned]

Speedstep. It's by design.

 

[Budmantom]

yup

 

[brain29]

OK, so when and why does it do it and is there anyway to disable it. It's very annoying.

 

[resStealth]

i dont think so. what it does is if say in idle it needs 300mhz, it will only use 300mhz, if you pop in a game an need 1.0ghz, it will speed up to 1.0ghz

 

[jkj]

If you want you can d/l a prog called speedswitch xp. It will give you the option of running at full speed etc