In the depths of that dark day Tue Oct 23, the words of Andy Toenz were the beacon: > On Tuesday, 23. October 2001 15.19, Andy Bastien wrote: > > > I don't have a switch "like" speedstep in my BIOS (Phoenix 4.0) > > > > Somewhere in the CMOS settings there should be a speedstep setting. > > How exactly you get to it varies among laptops, so I can't tell you > > exactly where it is, but if you look around in the power management > > area you should be able to find one. > > there is no !! It looks like Phoenix Bios'es are only "tunable" over > Win-Software :( > > > If you really don't have a way to turn off speedstep in your CMOS, > > it's going to be a problem. > > It looks so :( > > > I suppose you may be able to coax the > > laptop into always running in low-power mode by setting the power > > management to maximum power savings and always booting the laptop from > > a battery, but that's not a very good solution. > > I don't have the ability to change power settings of my laptop (look above). > NO chances :(( > > > But there are positive news: > I compiled kernel 2.2.19 from source, and it's running without problems > ....(i have at the moment) > --> so there _must_ be a problem in 2.4.12 !!! > > Andy > (still waiting, until 2.2.19 crashes too ;)
My laptop BIOS has a generic PhoenixBIOS 4.0. I can tell you how it works on mine, but your BIOS may be customized and so might be different: At the system boot logo, press F2. When the CMOS settings screen apears, go to the Power page. Select the option labeled 'Geyserville Mode', and change it to disabled.
