topic Re: CPU Failure, 209 MHz?! in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/cpu-failure-209-mhz/m-p/9813#M99696 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Is your Vaio plugged in or running on batteries?<BR /><BR />If Plugged in does the frequency of your CPU change if you select the 'Power Management Off' power scheme. <img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.ba/html/@13A2E6A3774A8B47B4EC6F04089539E1/images/smilies/063.png" alt=":thinking:" title=":thinking:" /><BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:00:14 GMT Thalamus. 2006-02-18T16:00:14Z CPU Failure, 209 MHz?! https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/cpu-failure-209-mhz/m-p/9809#M99693 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi.<BR /><BR />I've got a serious problem! My computer only runs at 598 MHz with fancontrol set to Performance and 209 MHz with Battery Life settings!! What the heck could be wrong?! I've had problems installing programs that require 800 MHz as minimum, but it never occured to me that there could actually be something wrong until yesterday when I ran a test!<BR /><BR />I've got a VGN-A197VP with a Intel 1.72GHz Centrino Processor.<BR /><BR />Please someone!!<BR /><BR />Ciao<BR />Figo<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:20:53 GMT https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/cpu-failure-209-mhz/m-p/9809#M99693 surtevall 2006-02-18T15:20:53Z Re: CPU Failure, 209 MHz?! https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/cpu-failure-209-mhz/m-p/9810#M99694 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><PRE __jive_macro_name="quote" class="jive_text_macro jive_macro_quote">Hi.<BR /><BR />I've got a serious problem! My computer only runs at 800 MHz with fancontrol set to Performance and 209 MHz with Battery Life settings!! What the heck could be wrong?! I've had problems installing programs that require 800MHz as minimum, but it never occured to me that there could actually be something wrong until yesterday when I ran a test!<BR /><BR />I've got a VGN-A197VP with a Intel 1.72GHz Centrino Processor.<BR /></PRE><BR /><BR /><BR />Hi Figo<BR /><BR /><BR />What processor information do you have on the System Properties 'General tab' Right click My Computer &gt; properties.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:29:33 GMT https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/cpu-failure-209-mhz/m-p/9810#M99694 Thalamus. 2006-02-18T15:29:33Z Re: CPU Failure, 209 MHz?! https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/cpu-failure-209-mhz/m-p/9811#M99695 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Same as mentioned in the above thread <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":confused_face:">😕</span><BR /><BR />With Battery Life settings:<BR />VGN-A Series<BR />Intel(R) Pentium(R) M Processor 1.7 GHz<BR />209 MHz, 768 MB RAM<BR /><BR />If I set it to Performance it changes to 598 MHz<BR /><BR />ciao<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:47:17 GMT https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/cpu-failure-209-mhz/m-p/9811#M99695 surtevall 2006-02-18T15:47:17Z Re: CPU Failure, 209 MHz?! https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/cpu-failure-209-mhz/m-p/9813#M99696 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Is your Vaio plugged in or running on batteries?<BR /><BR />If Plugged in does the frequency of your CPU change if you select the 'Power Management Off' power scheme. <img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.ba/html/@13A2E6A3774A8B47B4EC6F04089539E1/images/smilies/063.png" alt=":thinking:" title=":thinking:" /><BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:00:14 GMT https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/cpu-failure-209-mhz/m-p/9813#M99696 Thalamus. 2006-02-18T16:00:14Z Re: CPU Failure, 209 MHz?! https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/cpu-failure-209-mhz/m-p/9816#M99697 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I believe as Thalamus said its all down to your power settings and battery versus mains power. If a CPU fails its dead, it doesn't just slow down.<BR /><BR />I could be wrong but I thought that all Centrinos run at 1.2GHz when on Max performance, on battery.<BR /><BR />I also don<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:36:32 GMT https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/cpu-failure-209-mhz/m-p/9816#M99697 William 2006-02-18T16:36:32Z Re: CPU Failure, 209 MHz?! https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/cpu-failure-209-mhz/m-p/9818#M99698 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>No diffrence in performance, still only runs at 598 MHz <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":disappointed_face:">😞</span><BR /><BR />Is my CPU broken or something?!<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 19 Feb 2006 04:28:57 GMT https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/cpu-failure-209-mhz/m-p/9818#M99698 surtevall 2006-02-19T04:28:57Z