Please hold back the laughter

[halvey]

wow... i have had so many problems with my laptop lately. its ancient, about three years old....im working on building a new one. but anyway i did the quick restore to restore the computer settings back to original when i first got it... and when i went to install my internet connection settings it does a system check to see if your system can handle it. well i have a 233mhz 32mb ram 2gig hard drive...(like i said its really old) but when it ran its check it told me i couldnt install cause my cpu was running at 55mhz it did this like three times... the only way i got it to work was to let it idle for a bit before i ran it...isnt that crazy....someone really needs a diffrent computer

 

[Dennis Travis]

It sounds like your CPU is getting HOT and the system is slowing it down to cool it off. Most Laptops do this. Sometimes there is a setting in the Bios to turn Power Saving and CPU slowdown off but if it's getting that hot maybe something is wrong. Is there a fan for the cpu on say the back of the case? When it gets hot is it spinning? I had an old Winbook 486/DX4-100 and when it got hot the CPU slowed down to 25 MHZ and Windows 98 would not install as it requires a 486 66Mhz processor to install. Freeked me out at first till I realised what was happening. It was getting HOT so the system turned down the clock to allow it to cool.

 

[kylef]

Wow, I didn't know it had been around all that long. I thought Intel had invented it with their "Speedstep Technology"