I have an Thinkpad A22M with a 1Gig processor. The bios shows the processor
as that speed and I have looked at the processor on the system board and it
is the
1Gig. The problem is that WinXP in showing the processor as 700Meg. I
bought this computer used and the only odd thing is that I have no battery
in it at the moment and run it solely on AC. Anyone else seen a missing
battery slow the cpu down?? I have also downloaded the speed step software
and it makes no difference. Any thoughts?

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:04:17 -0400, "tom fugate" <tfugate@geocities.com>
wrote:

> I have an Thinkpad A22M with a 1Gig processor. The bios shows the processor
> as that speed and I have looked at the processor on the system board and it
> is the
> 1Gig. The problem is that WinXP in showing the processor as 700Meg. I
> bought this computer used and the only odd thing is that I have no battery
> in it at the moment and run it solely on AC. Anyone else seen a missing
> battery slow the cpu down?? I have also downloaded the speed step software
> and it makes no difference. Any thoughts?

Can't speak to the A22M but I can confirm that the Thinkpad 600X 650MHz
SpeedStep Pentium III notebook changes to 500MHz if there is no battery
(and even with a non-IBM battery!) so that may well be your problem.

Tony

"Anthony R. Gold" <not-for-mail@ahjg.co.uk> wrote in message
news:g83vi2p0a90j7gls2lk5pdvajkrb7l0ru3@4ax.com
> Can't speak to the A22M but I can confirm that the Thinkpad 600X
> 650MHz SpeedStep Pentium III notebook changes to 500MHz if there is
> no battery (and even with a non-IBM battery!) so that may well be
> your problem.

What? Really? What brain dead engineer thought that one up? I hope his
current job is working at a fast food restaurant somewhere. :|

--
Bill

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:22:30 -0500, "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:

> "Anthony R. Gold" <not-for-mail@ahjg.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:g83vi2p0a90j7gls2lk5pdvajkrb7l0ru3@4ax.com
>> Can't speak to the A22M but I can confirm that the Thinkpad 600X
>> 650MHz SpeedStep Pentium III notebook changes to 500MHz if there is
>> no battery (and even with a non-IBM battery!) so that may well be
>> your problem.
>
> What? Really? What brain dead engineer thought that one up? I hope his
> current job is working at a fast food restaurant somewhere. :|

:-)

I see here:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/ibm...42826bc2da5425
that indeed the A2x and other models are similarly afflicted.

Tony

"Anthony R. Gold" <not-for-mail@ahjg.co.uk> wrote in message
news:co6vi2ta0a5gbpq7ig7iua3hm06agbrsu3@4ax.com
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:22:30 -0500, "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:
>
>> "Anthony R. Gold" <not-for-mail@ahjg.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:g83vi2p0a90j7gls2lk5pdvajkrb7l0ru3@4ax.com
>>> Can't speak to the A22M but I can confirm that the Thinkpad 600X
>>> 650MHz SpeedStep Pentium III notebook changes to 500MHz if there is
>>> no battery (and even with a non-IBM battery!) so that may well be
>>> your problem.
>>
>> What? Really? What brain dead engineer thought that one up? I hope
>> his current job is working at a fast food restaurant somewhere. :|
>
> :-)
>
> I see here:
> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/ibm...42826bc2da5425
> that indeed the A2x and other models are similarly afflicted.

Wow amazing! Using the battery for short brief periods of high current
demand which the AC adapter can't supply. Hmmm! :(

--
Bill

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:17:32 -0500, "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:

> Wow amazing! Using the battery for short brief periods of high current
> demand which the AC adapter can't supply. Hmmm! :(

I found the horse's mouth:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/si...id=MIGR-4R4SC9

Tony