[NTLUG:Discuss] BIOS

[Gilbert Morrow]

One other thing once I figured out the problem SuSE flies now KDE responds
with zeal .
The voltage drop in BIOS is what tipped me off to what was going on there ,
I knew the voltage of the processor was 1.5v and just happened to check when
I installed the processor ,after booting to SuSE to check the processors L2
cache and saw the Mhz was lower than should be .
Noticed that if doing a cold start that the voltage would read 1.5v , but
after booting into SuSE it dropped to 1.07v and would remain (just doing
restart and going in to XP the voltage and Mhz would not change) until a
power down and power up was done .

On 1/24/06, Gilbert Morrow <gkfmorrow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The little Shuttles run quite or at least mine and my wifes do .
> That is what I thought about the powersaver or powersaved , because I know
> I did not select it when I installed SuSE .
>
> On 1/24/06, Patrick R. Michaud < pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 05:35:11PM -0600, Gilbert Morrow wrote:
> > > SuSE had updated the Powersaver daemon which allowed the (disable)
> > removal
> > > of it from runlevel services without harming the USB devices (changed
> > HAL
> > > and how it loaded modules ?). So in essence the Powersaver module was
> > acting
> > > like it was a laptop and not a desktop thus throttling the CPU , why
> > it did
> > > it through the BIOS and by voltage of the CPU is beyond me and why it
> > even
> > > loaded the service to begin with ? (laptop entries were not selected
> > when
> > > loading SuSE , Custom Install ).
> >
> > FWIW, on my desktop's SuSE 10.0 install it also has "powersaved"
> > installed and running when it boots.  I suspect this is because
> > there are reasons why one might want to throttle the CPU besides
> > simply saving battery power -- acoustics being one reason.
> > (My new desktop system is super-quiet, but I would've definitely
> > wanted to change the power settings on my previous desktop because
> > it tended to run a little hot, and had some noisy fans and drives
> > in it.  :-)
> >
> > Pm
> >
> >
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