Speedstep not active

"Paul" <nospam@needed.com> wrote in message news:fmn7m4$ucb$1@aioe.org...
> Daniel wrote:
>
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> the Speedstep option shown in the Manual does not come up
>> in my BIOS, the last one is Hyperthreading?
>>
>> I'll have a go on the ASUS forum
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Daniel
>
> I download the 0605 BIOS. I used "mmtool", which is a simple BIOS
> utility from AMI. It allows decompressing the component parts of the BIOS.
> In the 11th module inside the BIOS, I can see this text:
>
> Intel(R) SpeedStep(tm) tech.
>
> Maximum: CPU speed is set to maximum.
> Minimum: CPU speed is set to minimum.
> Automatic: CPU speed controlled by Operating system.
> Disabled: Default CPU speed.
>
> My suspicion right now, is the setting *may* be related to
> some other setting. One poster in the VIP forum, noticed a
> change when putting the CPU speed in a manual mode. I see
> an "AI Overclock" setting for example. While the SpeedStep
> feature is in a different BIOS screen, there is always a (slim)
> chance that the problem is related to some other BIOS setting.
>
> Paul

Paul

thanks for the inputm, I will have a look in ther BIOS and see if other
settings can be changed.

regards

Daniel