Re: Changing processor speeds

2000-06-13 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Greg Woods wrote: > > Alexander Clouter wrote: > > > due to microsofts infinite wisdom dos (and so windoze) has trouble > > handling more than 1024 cylinders (if I remember correctly). > > Much as I love a good M$-bashing occasionally, I don't think this is > Microsoft's doin

Re: Changing processor speeds

2000-06-13 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Greg Woods wrote: > > Alexander Clouter wrote: > > > due to microsofts infinite wisdom dos (and so windoze) has trouble > > handling more than 1024 cylinders (if I remember correctly). > > Much as I love a good M$-bashing occasionally, I don't think this is > Microsoft's doi

Re: Changing processor speeds

2000-06-12 Thread Greg Woods
Alexander Clouter wrote: > due to microsofts infinite wisdom dos (and so windoze) has trouble > handling more than 1024 cylinders (if I remember correctly). Much as I love a good M$-bashing occasionally, I don't think this is Microsoft's doing. The 1024 cylinder limit was in the original design o

Re: Changing processor speeds

2000-06-12 Thread Greg Woods
Alexander Clouter wrote: > due to microsofts infinite wisdom dos (and so windoze) has trouble > handling more than 1024 cylinders (if I remember correctly). Much as I love a good M$-bashing occasionally, I don't think this is Microsoft's doing. The 1024 cylinder limit was in the original design

Re: Changing processor speeds

2000-06-12 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> > definately shadows something (actually two things, I think). What > > impact does this "shadow" stuff have? > > > It should make your machine faster, I've always put them on and never > noticed any problems. However it makes the machine run faster by > using a small amount of you memory, if y

Re: Changing processor speeds

2000-06-12 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > Makes me think of my bios setup: there is an option where you select which > OS you're using ("mostly"), with the options Win95, Win98 or Other... any > idea what that might do? > due to microsofts infinite wisdom dos (and so windoze) has trouble h

Re: Changing processor speeds

2000-06-12 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> > definately shadows something (actually two things, I think). What > > impact does this "shadow" stuff have? > > > It should make your machine faster, I've always put them on and never > noticed any problems. However it makes the machine run faster by > using a small amount of you memory, if

Re: Changing processor speeds

2000-06-12 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > Makes me think of my bios setup: there is an option where you select which > OS you're using ("mostly"), with the options Win95, Win98 or Other... any > idea what that might do? > due to microsofts infinite wisdom dos (and so windoze) has trouble

Re: Changing processor speeds

2000-06-11 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Alexander Clouter wrote: > I used to have this problem after a resume. Surprisingly it was fixed by > changing a BIOS option or two. On my laptop I had to turn off 'CPU Idle' > calls in the *BIOS* and also (probably due to a dodgy Pheonix BIOS) had to > turn off 'PnP OS'.

Re: Changing processor speeds

2000-06-11 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Benjamin Tyger Sunshine-Hill wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have a Toshiba Libretto 70CT that I use a fair amount for MP3s. I've > noticed over the last couple of months that after some suspend/resume > cycles, the processor will go slower, causing the player to skip. BogoMIPS >

Re: Changing processor speeds

2000-06-11 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Alexander Clouter wrote: > I used to have this problem after a resume. Surprisingly it was fixed by > changing a BIOS option or two. On my laptop I had to turn off 'CPU Idle' > calls in the *BIOS* and also (probably due to a dodgy Pheonix BIOS) had to > turn off 'PnP OS'.

Re: Changing processor speeds

2000-06-11 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Benjamin Tyger Sunshine-Hill wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have a Toshiba Libretto 70CT that I use a fair amount for MP3s. I've > noticed over the last couple of months that after some suspend/resume > cycles, the processor will go slower, causing the player to skip. BogoMIPS >

Changing processor speeds

2000-06-11 Thread Benjamin Tyger Sunshine-Hill
Hello all, I have a Toshiba Libretto 70CT that I use a fair amount for MP3s. I've noticed over the last couple of months that after some suspend/resume cycles, the processor will go slower, causing the player to skip. BogoMIPS confirms this; the rating is either 158 or 238; if I'm inferring things

Changing processor speeds

2000-06-11 Thread Benjamin Tyger Sunshine-Hill
Hello all, I have a Toshiba Libretto 70CT that I use a fair amount for MP3s. I've noticed over the last couple of months that after some suspend/resume cycles, the processor will go slower, causing the player to skip. BogoMIPS confirms this; the rating is either 158 or 238; if I'm inferring thing