On Friday 31 December 2010 01:22:11 Bill Longman wrote: > On 12/30/2010 02:44 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Am 2010-12-30 18:54, schrieb Bill Longman: > >> On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >>> Bill, just for a check, does it scale correctly if you boot from a > >>> live-cd? > >> > >> Well, if I change the BIOS to turn off SpeedStep, it goes to 2.67 > >> GHz.....works great! > > > > good to hear. So it is solved? > > LOL! Well, if by "solved" you mean that I am able to use the full power > of my CPU, then, yes, it is solved. However, it is now completely > incapable of having its CPU controlled for power, so once I go on > batteries, I have about an hour and a half....so in that sense, no, it's > not solved. No, it's not solved. I am going to burn an ISO and boot one > of those "other" distros that shall remain nameless and see if there is > something strange with my Gentoo kernel madness or whether it's this > machine.
Hmm ... could it be a buggy BIOS? Are you running the latest firmware for it? Have you diff'ed the LiveCD kernel and yours? -- Regards, Mick
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