Laptops :: CPU trouble (?)



Hello,

Some days ago I installed DSL3.2 on my old notebook Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT and noticed one odd thing -
every boot my CPU is shown as a Celeron Mendocino 151MHz or 150MHz instead of real 300MHz!

Is it normal or not? :) Any ideas to fix this?


And one more question - which version of DSL would be the most stable for this notebook?
No ideas? Maybe the CPU will be shown (and will be working) correctly on one of the older releases?

Could anyone tell me which release would be fitting to this laptop mostly?
Did you check your BIOS and see if it was underclocked?
Well, as far as the BIOS is concerned it doesn't have any clock settings... The only options about CPU are:
CPU Cache (with write-back or write-through option) and L2 Cache, all enabled.
Quote (Archdevil @ Feb. 06 2007,10:02)
Hello,

Some days ago I installed DSL3.2 on my old notebook Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT and noticed one odd thing -
every boot my CPU is shown as a Celeron Mendocino 151MHz or 150MHz instead of real 300MHz!

Is it normal or not? :) Any ideas to fix this?


And one more question - which version of DSL would be the most stable for this notebook?

There's nothing wrong with your laptop or with DSL. In your power options, you probably have it set for "always on." Intel's speedstep reduces CPU speed by half when the CPU is being underused to reduce battery consumption. That's not a bad thing, imo. You can change that if you want but you're not running at half-speed all the time and changing the setting wouldn't "fix" anything -- just drain your battery faster.

Use the most current version of DSL.
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