On Thursday 09 December 2004 23:43, Dieter J�ger wrote: > I found a similar issue when I accidently loaded the "wrong" cpufreq > driver for P4 with powernowd. Suddenly /proc/cpuinfo showed frequencies > down to 200 MHz (the Bogomips also went down). > So I searched a little bit. People seem to think that those 600Mhz is > kind of hardcoded to the Centrino chipset. Taking a closer look to the > Intel Docu I found that the Intel specifications seem to be merely > recommendations. Other combinations of Frequency and Voltage are > possible. The docu regarding voltages clearly shows that there are > voltages possible other than those in the Freq/Voltage table. > > I got curious and played around a little bit: On my centrino I could > lower the frequency down to 100 Mhz. Lower frequencies caused the > cpuinfo display to be messed, but frequency down to 100Mhz seem to be > stable. To be clear: Those tricks are not official language! But my accu > now works conspiciously longer :-) > I do not know wether this can cause some damage so I cannot recommend > doing such things. > > Best regards > > Dieter J�ger
I am very interested. Please provide a clue to how you did. Regards, Anders Breindahl.
