Anyone managed to get speedstep to work in Vista yet?

[tentonine]

I have noticed that my CPU never clocks down under Vista, even when I select Power Saver in power options. I searched the forum and found other people with this problem, but I couldn't see any posts updated more recently than a month ago (about the time that Vista first came out). Does anyone know how to resolve this issue yet? Thanks.

[stuckinasquare3]

i heard somewhere that the processor never down clocks...it'd also be nice to know that powermizer worked. Btw how are you checking cpu speed? I8kfangui won't install for me

[tentonine]

I am using FanGUI version 3.1 and I have disabled UAC.

[Yoob@NBF]

Users now have a more defined control over how much the CPU clocks down using the Mobile battery control center just right click the battery ICON and adjust speedstep accordingly.

[tentonine]

Thanks for the reply. If you are referring to the section with the default setting of minimum 5%, max 100%, this doesn't seem to work for me. Even if I try to force it run at permanently low speed by setting max 50%, the CPU still does not clock down.

[cywelchjr]

Thanks for the reply. If you are referring to the section with the default setting of minimum 5%, max 100%, this doesn't seem to work for me. Even if I try to force it run at permanently low speed by setting max 50%, the CPU still does not clock down.

I don't know if this will help with any other models. But on my 5150, if I either suspend or hibernate with the power profile set to powersave, when I resume, the processor is running at 1.6Ghz and if I switch at that point to balanced it shifts processor speed on demand. I just have to remember to always switch to powersave before each hibernation (I tend to always hibernate now rather than shut down).

The only problem I have other than this at this point is that if I suspend, I don't get any sound until I hibernate or shut down. I guess the sound card only gets initialized from the power down states and not from the suspended state.

I hope this helps others who like me cannot expect a BIOS update to make it work properly since the 5150 is considered outdated (even though I get the full Aero experience and such).

[the_scotsman]

I have noticed this too...my CPU will NOT downclock, no matter what settings I have in power options....

[Yoob@NBF]

I can only get the CPU to declock when on Battery so were all in the sameboat here.

[cywelchjr]

I can only get the CPU to declock when on Battery so were all in the sameboat here.

For some reason my mine, as long as I am in a power profile that limits to a max of 50% when I resume, it downclocks initially and if I switch to balanced it adjusts the clock based on processor load. I must remember each time to set my power profile to the low power profile each time before suspending of hibernating though. I just wish I could find an easy way to set that AND hibernate with a single mouseclick or button click (logitech bluetooth keyboard I use most of the time).

[Abadee]

Mine on the other hand is skipping between 6x and 12x multipliers absolutely ruining everything I am doing... Tried everything and found this in a google search... on to find more info:D