[Gllug] Slow Processor

Andy McGarty andy at mac1systems.com
Thu Jul 17 19:18:13 UTC 2008


On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:10:52 +0100, Stephen Nelson-Smith  
<sanelson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We have a laptop with a Turion64 processor.  It's supposed to be an
> 1800 MHz chip.
>
> Dmidecode and cpuinfo both show it as running at 800MHz.
>
> I don't have cpuspeed running, and the laptop isn't running on
> battery, so I am confused.  What else could it be?
>
> The system is running Ubuntu 8.04
>
> Thanks,
>
> S.
This happened to me and I blushed when this list pointed out the problem.

Trying running a background process and see what it says.

Can you hear the ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ noise coming out of it?


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