CPU frequency went down

[A. Kromic]

On 07/12/10 19:43, NoOp wrote:
>
> You'd mentioned that you have an amd64 "Just to add, architecture is
> amd64.". However the Thinkpad R61i uses Intel processors only. [1]
>
I didn't mean I have an AMD CPU, I just mentioned the architecture. In
Ubuntu (and Debian) repositories, the architecture is still marked
'amd64' and some people still do call it that way. I was refering to the
architecture that is now generally known as 'x86_64', and has been named
'EMT64' by Intel before, for understandable reasons...
> Just a few thoughts; have you checked your bios to see if perhaps you've
> somehow turned off speedstepping in bios? Is your bios up to date? [2]
> Note: I'm not sure is an option in your bios for speedstep, but it's
> worth checking. Are you running the laptop without a battery? Apparently
> T61's will not run at full power if the battery is not in the machine. [3]
>
>
Now that you mentioned it, it is possible the battery is the culprit...
It has failed some time ago and I did use the machine without it for
some time, but put it back when I saw the frequency scaling problem.
However, the problem remained, so I thought it wasn't it; perhaps the
defective battery does have the same effect?

Thanks

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A.Kromic