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Turning off Speedstep on the 9300

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I want my Dell Inspiron 9300 processor to run at full clock speed (2.0GHz) constantly. I was looking around in the BIOS and found the option to disable speed step technology but doing so would force the processor to run at 800MHz constantly... :disgust: My laptop is connected to the power supply when I use it so I'm not really concerned with battery life. Does anyone know of a way to to this? Any information would help. Thanks.
 
I'm not sure if it works for Pentiums, but maybe go to control pannel/power savings and turn it to desktop mode? That works for A64 heh.
 
Yea, go into power setting and set it to always on. That generally does the trick. If you haven't formatted it, you might want to cruise add/remove programs and remove the Dell Quickset program, as I've heard that it ovverides Windows power settings, but I'm not 100% on it.
 
Originally posted by: bearxor
Yea, go into power setting and set it to always on. That generally does the trick. If you haven't formatted it, you might want to cruise add/remove programs and remove the Dell Quickset program, as I've heard that it ovverides Windows power settings, but I'm not 100% on it.
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That seems to be the only good way to do it. On mine, all of the power settings got deleted somehow except for home/office desk and portable/laptop. It actually works really well because i just hit one or the other and the power setting stays...
 
Download Centrino Hardware Control (now called Notebook hardware Control) or Speedswitch XP; those allow you to set the power states.
 
Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
Download Centrino Hardware Control (now called Notebook hardware Control) or Speedswitch XP; those allow you to set the power states.
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Which is best and do you have links?

 
And the first link Google turns up..............*drum roll*
http://www.pbus-167.com/chc.htm

I like CHC (now NHC); it has a lot more options than Speeswitch. Read instructions on that page carefully; NHC requires .net 2.0 which is not automatically DLed by MS yet. You have to DL it yourself and install. Or just get the old version, called CHC; no diff from what I can tell.
 
Centrino Hardware Control for the win...

SpeedSwitch XP is fine as well. Both will do exactly what the OP is looking for.
 
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