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awalt
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Click Start, type in Power, then click on Power Options. Check that you are not using Power saver rather than High Performance. Select to use High Performance, Then click Change Plan Setttings, Then click Change Advanced Power Settings, The processor settings should be, 100%, Active, 100% Click OK and Save These Changes, if you made any. If your settings are as above then it must just be the Dell settings causing the downclocking. So you will have to work out the Dell software yourself. I would start by checking the Bios, to see if you can keep it in a high performance mode from there. Yep these are the settings, as I have posted...I wonder if its a Microsoft update that has the SpeedStep running wrong, or something they corrected which now breaks some apps. |
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z2000
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If boinc is uninstalled, windows 7 runs perfectly?
----------------------------------------How does it run stress tests with and without boinc? I also would probably test the memory How does the Boic startup message look recently?  |
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Yep these are the settings, as I have posted...I wonder if its a Microsoft update that has the SpeedStep running wrong, or something they corrected which now breaks some apps. Indeed, they broke many things plugging their C security hole. Would not be surprised to learn that a Dell power system was affected. When the Power scheme was first used in Vista it was as buggy as the rest of it, and updates did impact upon it (resetting the scheme sometimes). |
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awalt
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Latest update...I have been playing around with a utility ThrottleStop, which gives manual control to Intel SpeedStep (which boosts and manipulates the CPU/core speed), fans, multipliers, and other things related to how fast the cores run on an Core I7 setup.
To make a long story short, I set some things, saw my laptop run at good speeds with BOINC running, with good CPU termperatures. I eventually turned off all the manual settings, and it is still running well! Right now I am running at between 2 GHz - 3 GHz in turbo boost mode, temps are around 67 - 70 C. (max is 100 accdg to Intel), fans hardly running at all, and I have 7 tasks running, taking 60% of CPU time! It's been doing this about 3 hours now without a hitch. So maybe some setting got set wrong by Windows or the SP 1 update, and now it's fixed? I'll keep watching it, seeing if it stays that way, if things change when I reboot, etc. But it's encouraging so far! |
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