My proccessor in my laptop is supposed to be running at 1.8GHz but it is only going at 1.3GHz it always was running at max speed until recently also the laptop has 512MB ram but in the system info it shows as 348MB ram again this has only ahppened recently.

Please can I have some advice on how to solve these problems I would be very greatful if someone would help me solve these issues

Hi there Zaamin,

Can you supply some information on your setup:

. Laptop make and model, age

. Operating system, e.g. Win XP + SP2

. Power Scheme (For WinXP): Go to Control Panel\Power Options

. Have you re-installed the OS at any time?

. Any hardware changes, i.e. different batteries?

. Any changes in noise or heat eminating from the machine?

Thanks.

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Hi

Thanks for you reply.

My sytem info:

Acer Ferrari 3000LMi
AMD Athlon XP 2500+XP
512MB RAM
60GB HD
Ati Radeon 9200 128MB ram GFX card
Windows XP Home SP2
1 Year Old
No Hardware Changes

I have re installed the os twice using the recovery disks due too major virus problems

Since the day i have had the laptop it has been heating up very quickly but i asked other users and they all said they had the same problem too.

The computer automatically shuts down when overheating

Thanks

Hi again,

I'm looking into it. In the meantime, can you confirm your power scheme in Windows? Tried setting it to "always on"?

The RAM issue could be the grafix card stealing 128MB for its own dedicated 3D use, unlike older onboard chipsets that do it dynamically, i.e. only steal memory for the 2D Windows display..I'd consign it to the lesser of two evils until that CPU speed issue is sorted /biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

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Hi

Thanks Again helping me.

My Laptop never came with a power management software i looked on the acre website to see if there were any and i had no luck. the card is dedicated 128 of its own ram and it always displayed as 512mb ram + 128 vram

Sorry about that - I'm not too familiar with laptops as I am with the old desktop stuff.

OK, have you checked your power scheme? From what I can gather the Laptop runs slower to conserve power whilst using batteries, and has to be set to "always on" when using mains as naturally energy efficiency is less of a restriction.

If you can establish that your power scheme is OK, and yet the machine is still running at 1.3GHz all the time even when under heavy load, try the following: Re-install the "PowerNow!" drivers..

Device Manager->Processors->properties. Selected "install new driver", the driver available from here:

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"AMD Power Now driver v5.1.2600.1152"

The reason I am saying this is because I am not sure whether a system restore would actually restore the above driver, plus a re-installation would fix any corruption of a previous driver.

Sorry for the stetchy info at present..

p.s. If you get no joy, have you tried ACER technical support? If the machine is just under 1 year old to the day, they may also replace it if it comes to the worst. Hopefully not :-)

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Hi

I checked the power schemes again and now it is running at 1592Ghz so its still not running at max speed. My graphics on games has suddenly lost it. The games are not running properly. Do you know anything about the ram issue

Not familiar with the RAM issue yet.

Just checking..you're testing on mains voltage and the power scheme is "always on", right?

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yeah its on the mains and always on scheme

OK, if the core speed is ramping up things are looking better.

This AMD tool will display a real-time view of your PowerNow! activity, rather than having to go through Windows:

"PowerNow! Dashboard"

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Try and stress the computer using lots of Windows apps; when it runs out of RAM it'll use the hard drive as temp storage which will further load down the processor. Use some ZIP compressing as well as image-processing and virus-scanning, if you can.

A tool like Prime95 or Hot CPU Tester, will put a decent load on the CPU and memory.

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Your system seems to live manifesting problems! :-)

The grafix issue may be related to the memory, which would manifest in the above stress test apps. Tried different games?

Quick recap

Laptop not running at full speed; incorrect memory display; glitch in games.

Established:

1. Connected to mains
2. Power scheme in Windows is set to always on
3. Power-now driver re-installed?
4. Windows completely clean?
5. Windows apps running that place as close as 100% load on CPU resources?

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The CPU issue your having is perfectly normal. My Ferrari 3000 also runs at around 1.6Ghz despite being a 1.8Ghz CPU. I have tried my power scheme at every possible setting, and can not get it to reach max speed, which is probably just as well, beacuse as you noticed, it's a pretty hot runner.
I installed the AMD Power-Now dashboard which shows it to be running at I think 72%, although when I first boot-up, it runs at full pelt for a few minutes.

Sorry, can't help you on the RAM issue, but it is strange that you have exactly 128Mb missing. Seems to rule out a faulty RAM module, because I believe these machines are factory fitted with 2x256 sticks.

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hey guys, the missing 128 meg of Ram is the nrm, because these laptops have shared video memory, not dedicated, so part of your systems main ram is reserved for video memory so that is perfectly normal, nothing to worry about, if you want to have at least 512 meg of your system ram free I would take out one of the 256 meg modules and replace it with a 512 meg module, that way you would have a total system memory of 768 megs System Ram and 128 megs for video memory which will leave you with a total of 640 megs free system Ram.... make sense? OK now for my problem... you guys are lucky that you are getting 70% to 90% of full processor speeds, I am running at a measely 56% average, and it really really bites.. I would love to have my processor rn at 80% to 90% of full throttle... so if anyone knows how to speed up my processor please tell me, I am running a HP Pavilion zv6107 Laptop 1.8GHZ (actually running at 1 GHZ or 1000 MHZ... while my power usage is only at 1.150 volts and my power savings are at least 90% of max and my laptop is running cooler than any laptop I have previously owned (and I have owned a lot of them... like 10 laptops over the last 8 years) but I would rather have my poer savings at maybe 70% and processor rumming at least at 1.5 GHZ or 1.6GHZ and I would be happy, and I have also tried every power scheme to include trying to un it as a server so any help would be appreciated

QUOTE(MrSandMan799 @ Aug 7 2005, 06:04 AM)hey guys, the missing 128 meg of Ram is the nrm, because these laptops have shared video memory, not dedicated, so part of your systems main ram is reserved for video memory so that is perfectly normal, nothing to worry about, if you want to have at least 512 meg of your system ram free I would take out one of the 256 meg modules and replace it with a 512 meg module, that way you would have a total system memory of  768 megs System Ram and  128 megs for video memory which will leave you with a total of 640 megs free system Ram....  make sense? OK now for my problem... you guys are lucky that you are getting 70% to 90% of full processor speeds, I am running at a measely 56% average, and it really really bites.. I would love to have my processor rn at 80% to 90% of full throttle... so if anyone knows how to speed up my processor please tell me, I am running a HP Pavilion zv6107 Laptop 1.8GHZ (actually running at 1 GHZ or 1000 MHZ... while my power usage is only at 1.150 volts and my power savings are at least 90% of max and my laptop is running cooler than any laptop I have previously owned (and I have owned a lot of them... like 10 laptops over the last 8 years) but I would rather have my poer savings at maybe 70% and processor rumming at least at 1.5 GHZ or 1.6GHZ and I would be happy, and I have also tried every power scheme to include trying to un it as a server so any help would be appreciated
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download rmclock tocontrol amd power now. I have the same lappy and can run full throttle on battery or max power savings or anywhere in between.

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