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    Celeron to Pentium replacement problem

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by maser, Jan 13, 2009.

  1. maser

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    I have a Toshiba A85-S1072 with RS350 chipset. It originally comes with Intel Celeron M 360J [1.40GHz, 1MB L2, 400MHz FSB - Dothan core] and works with 14x multiplier (14x100fsb). Recently I replaced it with Pentium M 1700/2M (SL7EP) - also Dothan core. The problem is that the speedstep feature doesn't seem to work because instead 17x multiplier in during high procesor load I get 6x all the time. I've changed power management profile to home office/desktop in windows and I have even checked that on fedora core 10 live cd and it's still 600mhz. I don't have any option in bios that could be related with speedstep. I have the latest bios version 1.3.

    If any one have any suggestion that could help in my case I would really appeciate that. Thanks.
     
    maser, Jan 13, 2009
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  2. Jernkar

    Jernkar Notebook Consultant

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    Go into Toshiba Hardware Setup in the Control Panel. Click on the "CPU" tab, I'll bet your setting is on "Low" instead of "Dynamic". Switch it to "Dynamic" and the CPU will run at full speed when needed.
     
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    Thank you so much Jernkar! I felt that situation was hopeless...but your advice really worked!! :) I really appreciate your help.
     
    maser, Jan 13, 2009
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    I get lucky once in a while.
     
    Jernkar, Jan 13, 2009
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