How to run my cou at lower freq

[Sarangan Thuraisingham]

Santanu Chatterjee wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
> 
> Is there some way in Ubuntu (and Linux in general) which
> will enable me to run my CPU at a somewhat lower frequency
> than the normal one?  I have an Intel i815 based motherboard
> which does not have any option to change the CPU freq. from
> the BIOS. I need my CPU to run at say 1GHz instead of 1.8GHz.
> 
> I need to do this since I am having some problems
> with the motherboard shutting down my system suddenly since the
> CPU is getting overheated. (I got this checked and this does not
> seem to be a problem with the CPU fan)
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> Regards,
> Santanu
> 

  1. Could you give us more info: What is the output of 'cat /proc/cpuinfo'?
  2. Have you heard of cpufreqd and powernowd?
  3. Did you try googling for " 'your processor name/model' Linux CPU 
frequency scaling'? Most of these issues have already been dealt with 
before, especially in the Ubuntu forums.

Just suggesting you do these, instead of being told by someone to 
RTFM(_Fine_). Although, none of us Ubunteros are that rude ;-)

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Regards,
  - Saru
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Sarangan Thuraisingham
ECS, University of Southampton, UK

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