Lenovo T400 CPU problems

Hey everyone,

I've got a lenovo t400 ( 7417 CTO ) with 3 Gigs of ram and Intel T9400 CPU and I am running windows xp pro sp3. Today I installed VMware workstation and when I started a virual machine it gave me this message:
"VMware Workstation has measured your CPU speed to be 564 MHz, but Windows reports that it is 2527 MHz. This may mean that your computer has a power-saving feature that varies the processor speed. As a result, the clock in your virtual machine may run too fast or too slow."

That made me do a couple of tests because I feel my computer is slower than what it should be. I installed CPU Speed professional and I got the same results. It gave me something around 550MHz. I ran wPrime Benchmark ( I got 30ish seconds with 32MB and 1000ish seconds with 1024MB) with 1024MB test and while that was running I ran the CPU Speed professional again and it gave me 2500MHz. Is this an Intel built-in feature and will it slow my computer ? if that is true how can I disable it? or is there a problem with my CPU?

Thanks.

 

that looks to me its your power setting.

goto your thinkpad power manager. edit the settings or choose one for max performance. i ususally make my own profile and max everything out. there shoul dbe a default for that also.

 

I used maximum performance and I created a new profile and I maxed everything but I got the same things after that.

 

duno. this might be completely wrong but i think theres a setting where the processor is set to meet the demand only for power savings. but i'd image setting it to max setting overrides this. try looking into the bios settings? i cant remmeber but i recall it being something like that in the administrative tools settings?