Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Jan 2004 21:42:57 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Laptops & CPU frequency |
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Hi!
> > I have an athlon-xp laptop (HP pavilion ze4500) with powernow that > > definitely goes into low power mode when the plug is pulled. The screen > > goes dark, and everything slows down. > > Dave did not mean that the other power management schemes cannot do the > automatic reduction on loss of AC, just that there is no SMM/BIOS hacks > to do it automatically.
People are designing machines where battery can't provide enough ampers for cpu in high-power mode. If speedstep machines have same problem, SMM is actually right thing to do. Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms
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