Replacement t41p arrived help with battery mode processor speed

[hox]

My T41p replacement arrived yesterday. Having waited almost a month, I was very nervous about starting it up. So far none of the problems with the icons under windows XP not responsding have occurred. I have installed my usual compliment of software and all seems well. As soon as I configure its network I will give a full evaluation. One thing I do not know how to do on this notebook is to increase the processor speed when running on the battery. I have been to the power management section and chosen Hi Performance and the processor speed is reporting at 598 mhz. I rarely travel more than a three hour flight so the hi capacity battery running the laptop at 1.7 GHZ should still last for the duration. I even configured the power management to disable processor power management, but no change in speed showed up when right clicking the My Computer icon. Is there a way to over ride the stepped down speed of this processor when running in battery mode?

Thanks

 

[Scatterpack]

Did you try the IBM site ?

 

[Bruce6323]

Hey that's good to hear you don't have the same problems with the icons. I had the same problems and I RMA'd mine back today and will hopefully receive a replacement in a couple of weeks. I really think the problem with the icons had to do with conflicts with IBMs own installed software. Because I could make the 'my computer' stuff work and not work when I had IBM programs like pc-doctor or access IBM running in the background.

 

[rainypickles]

you may want to try and get a program that will tell you the speed of the cpu instead of relying on the my computer properties.

i have a x1000 and i know that cpuid bsods my computer. you should try anyway though.

batterymon is a battery monitoring program. it also has an info screen that displays mhz.
batterymon.

edit. i wish that worked on these boards.

 

[Abhi]

Link

SpeedSwitchXP, works for me...