Speedstep question - 'Max Battery'

Question

What exactly is this setting supposed to do? My impression is that it is supposed to operate at one speed step lower than normal when unplugged. But for some reason, l8kfangui shows me that it actually stays at 600mhz constantly(realtime calculations), but when set to 'Ask Windows about Speed', it says that it is running at 300mhz. anyone know if this some sort of speedstep bug? as in speedstep lying to windows or windows screwing up or something? My laptop is a inspiron 8600, 1.4Ghz centrino, windows xp pro

mattcowger · Answer

It forces the processor to its lowest setting. For the 1.4G Pentium M, thats 600MHz. Windows is wromg/misinterpreting something, because the lowest speed for that proc is 600MHz.

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