HP ENVY 15 1050nr CPU speed always drops.

Sorry for this being my first post but I seem to have a problem that I have not been able to remedy for a long while.

I purchased the hp Envy 15 15 1050nr back in July of 2010 and since the beginning it has always done something a tad funny. It would hit its peak of 1600mhz on the clock for a bit and go down to 926mhz and stay there. To this day it does the same thing (sometimes not even going to 1600mhz at all). I figure it's some sort of power saver mode that it goes into.

I have gone into the basic power options in windows and changed everything to max performance and still nothing has changed. I then tried going into Bios (f10) I believe and did not see a power tab to goto to maybe turn this setting off. Maybe there is some sort of advanced bios that I don't know of?

My Bios is F.2b. (Flashed it thinking maybe it would fix the problem)

If it is possible can anyone help me and maybe some more individuals that may have this same problem. I appreciate it. I can try and give more information if needed. I'm not a computer expert by any means. Thank you!

Jerry

 

The answer to your problem, is - it depends...

Mobile processors are made to save power when not in use. To do this they throttle back (decrease clock speed) which greatly saves power used, when there is little demand on the processor. Therefore if you are not stressing your processor, then it will not run at the full rated speeds.

It would be a problem though if you were running an application that used 100% of the processing power, but the processor did not bump up the clock to max.

Example - My processor I am using now is an i3 370m, 2.4 ghz. It has not hit it's max clock the entire time I have been typing this. Mostly sitting around 1600 to 2000 mhz. This is with a few applications running also. I have seen it drop lower when fully idle before.

So in short, more info needed. A program like realtemp will show processor usage in %, and clock speeds. This will help you decide if it is working properly or not.

 

Sorry I haven't replied in awhile. I'm still deployed. I did notice something. I tried my HP power adapter and it stayed the basic 926 mhz. I plugged a spare non hp into it to charge and it jumped to 1.597 ghz. Then switched and it dropped again. Ill get the info needed when I can. Computer time for me is very rare.

 

sounds like the cpu is throttling
try throttlestop 4.0, and unenable the bd prochet to prevent the throttling
just be careful of overheating, but ive run the program on my asus g53sw and its been solid the whole year