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    Satellite X205-S7483 running real slow, cpu keeps switching frequencys

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by Halo200x, Dec 24, 2009.

  1. Halo200x

    Halo200x Notebook Consultant

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    I have a Satellite X205-S7483, I tried searching the owners thread for a fix, but to no avail. currently my CPU temperatures are only around 52 degrees celcius, but the CPU keeps switching from 1.6ghz to 997mhz causing some terrible slowdowns. Its so bad I can't even watch youtube videos at 30fps in browser, let alone play games at a decent, consistent framerate.

    I was playing CoDMW2 and A.V.A just fine, but now they run at 60fps then decide to drop to 20 for no reason in the middle of my gaming.
    I've thought it was an overheating problem but I can't figure out why at 50c idle, and 65cgaming(71c is the highest temp I've ever seen with coretemp monitoring). If anyone has a way to keep the CPU from changing let me know, this is really annoying.
     
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    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Don't you have any BIOS options?
     
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    I checked and there were 2 options, the lowest frequency and dynamic switching. It was on dynamic switching. Lowest made it locked at the 997mhz.
     
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    Try using RMclock or crystalcpuid to force the CPU multi to it's max.
     
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    Well I haven't figured out how these yet, I'll go look up the guide in a bit. I just noticed it seems to downclock the cpu when its at 100% usage which i can just be browsing with firefox and it will do that or some other menial task...
     
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    Double post, sorry but for some reason it won't let me change the voltage or cpu speed. It just simply doesn't change anything. With NHC an error pops up saying Error changing CPU speed.
     
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    Maybe you should backup your drive, then reset the BIOS and re-install the OS. If that doesn't help then it might be a hardware problem.
     
    moral hazard, Dec 24, 2009
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