[Fred60]

When running a game, everything is jurky and slow. I checked my BIOS and it said the CPU clock was set at 800 Mhz. The other day when I was looking at the BIOS it was set at the max speed for the CPU chip of 1.86 Ghz. It also says I can't set the speed. Does anyone know how I can force it to run at 1.86 Ghz.

It is a Dell Precision M70 with a NVIDIA Quadro FX Go 1400 256MB Graphics Card and a WUXGA display.

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What games are you trying to run?

Post some specs:

Download EVEREST Free Home Edition

• Install it, and then run it.
• In left pane expand Computer folder.
• Click once on Summary
• In the upper menu, choose Report > Quick Report-Summary
• Save it in text file, and paste it in your next post.

When pasting it into your reply:
DO NOT INCLUDE ANYTHING UNDER THE LINE THAT SAYS "DEBUG- PCI"

Kudos to rshaffer61 for instructions!

-Tony

[Fred60]

Thanks for the reply. Nothing very complex, URU Live and the off line version. It also happened with Google Earth. I have determined that it is temperature throttling because when I let it set off for an hour or so, the bios shows the clock speed at 1.86 Ghz. It looks like my graphics card cooling fan is not working. It is a small muffin fan, It works fine if I keep the room temperature down to around 68 F and remove the keyboard from on top of it.

Thanks again!

[Fred60]

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