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    Unlock the BIOS

    Discussion in 'HP' started by CalebSchmerge, Oct 26, 2005.

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    I have an HP Pavilion zt3010us. It has a 1.5 GHZ Pentium M processor. I have upgraded the system to 2 Gigabytes of RAM and I have upgraded to a Western Digital 80 Gigabyte 5400 RPM hard drive. I have noticed that the performance has gone down since I got it. I completely re-did the hard drive 2 months ago, and defrag it frequently. I have turned off many of the advanced display features, and have even installed a better defrag utility, but it still seems the system isn't running properly. A book I recently got talks about how the processor might not be detected properly if the CMOS battery has trouble or after system crashes. Last year I had the internal power supply cook itself, and I am wondering if I might have a wrong processor speed set. The BIOS is locked though to change the settings. Can it be unlocked to allow for tweaking? My computer should be running better than it is. Any other thoughts for what the problem might be? Thanks for the help! :hp:
     
    CalebSchmerge, Oct 26, 2005
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