Re: [Thinkpad] T20 to 1 GHZ

AFAIK there was never a T20 that was not speedstep enabled. The slowest T20
was the P3 650 with the 13.3" screen, and it is for sure speedstep enabled.
This upgrade will not show all that much benefit if you can get it to work,
the fan generally being the issue. You should be aware that some T20 system
boards just won't support the the one gig, no matter what you do.
----- Original Message -----
From: <jteasdal@purdue.edu>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 12:56 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] T20 to 1 GHZ

>
>
> Just ordered a 1 ghz proccessor to try this upgrade and have been reading
up on
> it. Is it possible that speedstep has been causing problems for people.
I'm not
> sure if speedstep is in the 700 Mhz proccessors that people have been
using but
> i know that IBM didn't add support for it into the BIOS until the 1.06
update.
> If this were the case it would explain why some people have gotten the
upgrade
> to work with Windows XP in safe mode, and Windows 98. If Windows XP were
trying
> to load some form of Speed Step driver because it detected the new cpu as
> supporting speed step, but the BIOS hadn't be updated, the drivers might
crash
> the system. I also don't know who has been updating their BIOS's. Anyway,
I'm
> just theorizing.
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