Speedstep not working properly?

Are my questions silly or do I need to include more information?

Are my questions silly or do I need to include more information?

jarvis2323,

There's a thread describing a similar problem with the Inspiron 1150 here. So far, nobody's said that the problem applies to other Dell laptops, though. You might want to look at that thread.

Jim

Thank you very much will try to see if similar situation for D600 as I will be setting them up everyday (work environment).

No my problem is not the same. Did a fresh install and tested it without installing sp2. Same results as I stated in my first post. Anybody else have any ideas? The only thing that seems to make any difference is having power settings set to either always on, or laptop mode. In always on it always runs at the full 1.8 (regardless of being on battery power or not). In laptop mode it always runs at 600 mhz regardless of battery power or not. This is not right. It should be 1.8 on ac power. and it should dynamically switch between 1.2 and 1.8 when it is on batteries (unless I am mistaken). Nobody else is having this problem?

When you have it plugged in, you may have a lower poweder ac adapter, which will run your laptop at lower speeds.

You can download a program (SpeedSwitchXP)  which gives you access to controlling how the computer handles it's power, which determines the speed in which it will run at.  I am not sure if this is the exact solution, just trying to help.

http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp/