Speed Stepping Question

[latus]

Hey--
I am running the new dell inspiron 5150 with p4 3.2ghz, 1gb ram, 64mb nvidia go5200 graphics card. I have run into some problems with the speed stepping while playing star wars galaxies and was wondering how you turn speed stepping off on my laptop. I am running windows xp pro.

[John Prophet]

Welcome to the forum!!

I looked at the manual..closest thing i saw was

start-->control panel--->performance and maintenance--->power options


if not there maybe in the bios??

JP

[latus]

nope... not in control panel... maybe bios? anybody else know?

[John Prophet]

http://www.tu-berlin.de/zrz/reuse/no..._en/spdstp.htm

[latus]

worked... my game works perfectly now... thanks guys!!!

[John Prophet]

glad to help..so it was in control panel afterall or bios?

[latus]

all i had to do was set my power scheme to "always on" instead of "laptop/notebook scheme" and it uses my full 3.2ghz processor instead of half of it =) just gotta be careful when i unplug the power cord to switch it back!

[John Prophet]

maybe u can setup a "profile"...a hardware profile...one power scheme when on battery and another when on wall juice...would be cool if it could switch automatically...seems like there would be a way to do that.

[latus]

seems that way... but then again it is microsoft =)