Windows 7 - SP3 bug

Asked By Gary Mount

12-Dec-07 07:11 AM

I installed Windows XP Service Pack 3 on my old Sony Vaio laptop and XP is
reporting the cpu as only 75 MHz.
its a 300 MHz cpu and a utility called CPU-Z correctly shows it as running
at almost 300 MHz.
Before the Service Pack upgrade, Windows would show the correct speed.
Computer | Properties | General tap shows the cpu speed.
I even used Help, about , system information in OneNote 2007 and it shows
the speed as 75 Mhz as well.
Pentium II processor by the way.

12-Dec-07 07:43 AM

If you roll back to the actually released SP2 - does the processor speed in
System Properties (is that where you are seeing this - or in msinfo32?) show
correctly?

I have to say - I have ran Windows XP on some (what I considered) minimal
systems before - it was painful at best.  You say this thing has a 300MHz
CPU and is a Pentium II - I have to ask - when did you replace the hard disk
drive witrh something that allowed you to run Windows XP fully patched and
obviously some part of Office 2007 and still have some space left over?  How
much memory does this machine have?  How long does it take to boot and
load - anything?  Having experienced 400MHz PCs with 1GB memory and 8GB hard
disk drives - I cannot imagine it being the most productive machine on the
planet. ;-)

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12-Dec-07 08:38 AM

Update... After a reboot, it is now showing the proper speed.

I right clicked on "my computer" and select properties and that is where the
MHz information is.

I removed the 4GB hard drive about a year ago and replaced it with a 40 GB
drive.
It has 64 + 128 MBytes of memory (192 MB total)
Boot time is not too long. I usually hibernate so resuming is quick,
especially when it only has to read back 192 MBytes.

When I want to be productive I use my 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 with 2GBytes of
memory. I sometimes remote into the laptop so I can get a nice 1600 by 1200
screen to work with.
I wouldn't really want to roll back to SP2 just to see if it reads the
proper Mhz of the cpu. But I could do.

A couple of weeks ago my brother just updated from a Pentium II 233 MHz
desktop computer to a Pentium Dual core 2 GHz, and 4 GBytes of ram. ( I
built the system for him). Still waiting to upgrade the graphics (running a
radeon 7000 pci (not pci express)) when the ATI Radeon HD 3870 shows up at
the local store. Future shop web sites says later today.

12-Dec-07 09:20 AM

The reason I suggested the roll-back is because you are likely going to have
to do that anyway when Windows XP SP3 is actually released - if this is a
machine you utilize.  What you have is the Release Candidate 1 for SP3.  It
may turn out that there will be very little difference between it and the
final release - but...

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14-Dec-07 05:14 AM

SP3 bug,-that is why it is called BETA!

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Mike Pawlak