topic Re: Service Pack 2 for windows XP in PCs & Accessories

Service Pack 2 for windows XP

htn02 — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:42:29 GMT

i have trouble with my vaio, i have an K115Z, and after i installed Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, i canoot clock my processor down, it is running opn his full 3.06 ghz all the time, and that is completly not necassary when watchin a DVD, or such a thing, and my accu is working about an hour on 3.06 ghz, but on degrade, i can work much longer (400 MHZ), however, this function does not work after i installed XP2, is there a patch, or is there anything i can do to make it work again?

Re: Service Pack 2 for windows XP

kee-lo_ — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:09:50 GMT

Have you reinstalled the powerpannel?

Re: Service Pack 2 for windows XP

htn02 — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:06:48 GMT

the what?

Re: Service Pack 2 for windows XP

jammold — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:06:50 GMT

I think UTILS.EXE can reinstall it for you. You find this in C:\UTILS.

Re: Service Pack 2 for windows XP

htn02 — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:24:27 GMT

it cant, Vaio Powermanagement works, but he doesnt do shit, still, in the win-fn-insert screen, there stands 3.06 ghz, no mather what, and not the clocked back processor speed, i can say to do adaptice, or full, or batery life, or degrade, it just doesnt affect the speed

Re: Service Pack 2 for windows XP

William — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:38:39 GMT

Could XP now be wrongly reporting the CPU speed?

This happened to me when I upgraded my processor until I upgraded my bios (Vaio GRX).

I looked at the available updates for your model on VaioLink and there appear to be no SP2 related updates.

There is however a bios update:smileycry: which may help.

Unless there is a more obvious solution there are (at the moment) two options:

Uninstall SP2

Try the bios update.

William

Re: Service Pack 2 for windows XP

jammold — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:39:03 GMT

Hmm Intel have a lot to answer for with this one. Intel incorporated SpeedStep technology into Windows XP. Its job is to adapt the CPU speed to system temperature and workload.

To slow down the CPU, ensure that on the taskbar you firstly have the power icon, and that you use something other than Always On. Always On is designed to get the highest possible performance out of the CPU - and by default has no native power options set either.

Here is a LINK for Intel SpeedStep and a driver.

Re: Service Pack 2 for windows XP

William — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:48:06 GMT

James,

Your link is to Pentium 3 processors?

William

Re: Service Pack 2 for windows XP

jammold — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:58:54 GMT

Sorry, meant to link to Pentium M/4 processors instead.

Damn Google!

Try this link instead Intel SpeedStep Troubleshooting

Re: Service Pack 2 for windows XP

William — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:03:32 GMT

Cheers James,

More than one reference to Bios issue.

William

Re: Service Pack 2 for windows XP

jammold — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:13:54 GMT

Also found the Intel CPU ID tool useful - tells you more than you would ever want to know about your CPU. To my surprise my CPU is running at its maximum too.

System is perfectly stable, and MobileMeter is reporting a system temperature of 56 degrees, but when I switched the VAIO Power Management utility into Performance mode (for AC Power), the system's speed fell from 2.80GHz to 2.43GHz.

Odd behaviour!

Re: Service Pack 2 for windows XP

kee-lo_ — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:49:22 GMT

Thats very odd James.

Re: Service Pack 2 for windows XP

jammold — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:53:26 GMT

Now its cured itself?! It would be better if Intel could release a SpeedStep Control Panel.:smileywink:

Re: Service Pack 2 for windows XP

htn02 — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 06:09:18 GMT

ill try the bios update

//edit, where can i find it?
//more edit, where can i find that CPU ID tool?

Re: Service Pack 2 for windows XP

htn02 — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 06:17:43 GMT

o, and also, maybe he is giving wrong info, but if my laptop runs on 400MHZ, or 3.06GHZ, i can see easy, couse my batery live is so much shorter, he produces far more heat, and his performance with 400 mhz, it sucks, and 3.06 ghz, it rocks, i dont have shitty performance when i put it on degrade, so i know it aint working(i use to test it with battlefield1942, when i have 63 bots, all works fine on 3.06, but on 1.6(batery life) its not working fine

Re: Service Pack 2 for windows XP

htn02 — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 06:30:04 GMT

Sorry, meant to link to Pentium M/4 processors instead.

Damn Google!

Try this link instead Intel SpeedStep Troubleshooting

doesnt solve the problem for me:( but thanks anyways!

Re: Service Pack 2 for windows XP

htn02 — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:01:17 GMT

its working again:smileygrin: :smileygrin: :smileygrin: :smileygrin: :smileygrin: :smileygrin: i flashed the bios, and it worked(i found the drivers all by myself:smileytongue: :smileygrin: :smileygrin: :smileygrin: :smileygrin: thank you very much guys!

Re: Service Pack 2 for windows XP

TygerTyger — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:20:37 GMT

Ok now I'm wondering something......I have a K115s, exactly the same laptop but 2.8Ghz instead of 3.06. I'm positive when I bought the thing that the processor had HT (It's a P4 desktop Pentium with a Northwood core if that means anything).
I can't find any way of changing the core speed of the processor, nor have I ever seen it running on anything other than maximum. htn02, how is it done? Where does it say? I just did a quick Sandra report on the processor and it says that HT isn't enabled? What's going on?

Edit: Ignore this post, I just checked and it seems only the top model had HT. Mine was just standard. Teach me to double check things won't it.

Re: Service Pack 2 for windows XP

htn02 — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:36:41 GMT

Ok now I'm wondering something......I have a K115s, exactly the same laptop but 2.8Ghz instead of 3.06. I'm positive when I bought the thing that the processor had HT (It's a P4 desktop Pentium with a Northwood core if that means anything).
I can't find any way of changing the core speed of the processor, nor have I ever seen it running on anything other than maximum. htn02, how is it done? Where does it say? I just did a quick Sandra report on the processor and it says that HT isn't enabled?  What's going on?

Edit: Ignore this post, I just checked and it seems only the top model had HT. Mine was just standard. Teach me to double check things won't it.

yeah, i thought mine had it to, i thought the K115Z was te top model, but it aint:(, who cares, just sucking the accu

Re: Service Pack 2 for windows XP

kee-lo_ — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:59:12 GMT

its working again:smileygrin: :smileygrin: :smileygrin: :smileygrin: :smileygrin: :smileygrin: i flashed the bios, and it worked(i found the drivers all by myself:smileytongue:    :smileygrin: :smileygrin: :smileygrin: :smileygrin: thank you very much guys!

Nice to see another problem solved.