Alienware laptop troubles

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Got an m7700 area 51 off of ebay but having some troubles with it.

It has a P4 3.2, and with the power plugged in it's at 3200mhz, unplug and rely on the battery and it becomes 2617mhz. No idea why.

Is this normal?
 
radio said:
Got an m7700 area 51 off of ebay but having some troubles with it.

It has a P4 3.2, and with the power plugged in it's at 3200mhz, unplug and rely on the battery and it becomes 2617mhz. No idea why.

Is this normal?
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It might some energy saver mode?

Or maybe that Intel SpeedStep or whatever it's called?
 
When it drops to 2.6mhz, it is silly slow, like over 1 minute do go through one loop of superpi (1mb).

Just having firefox open it slows to a crawl.

Is there a way to disable speedstep?

The battery lasts under an hour as it is:(#


Also, I didn't think a non mobile p4 3,2 prescott had speedstep.
 
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'Think 2.6Ghz is a drop, my laptop drops to 800Mhz when i unplug it!

It probably isn't possible to do anything about it. See what voltage your CPU is getting when it's plugged in and unplugged. I suppose you've already tried alternative battery modes, right?
 
deadeyedic30 said:
How much ram does this laptop have ?
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It has 1GB of ram.

I'll look in the BIOS later, but I'm thinking if I run at 3.2 the battery may last less than 10 minutes.

Cheers for the help all.
 
Dr_Evil said:
Building P4 laptops was a bad idea - good for gaming, but don't think of running it on batteries....
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Aye brothers 2.4ghz P4 battery lasts less than 2 hours even with the screen off (used it as a HTPC to a 28" TV) :rolleyes:
 
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