SOLVED Mobile Athlon 3200+ help needed

[ObsesivComplsiv]

First, I apologize if this thread is in the wrong place. I couldn't decide if It should go here or the laptop section so flipped a coin.
I have a laptop(eMachines m6809) that was given to me with a Mobile Athlon 3200+ that according cpuid is only running @800mhz and Windows says 1.6Ghz neither of the two being the 2Ghz it is supposed to be running at. I remember back when these came out that people were having this trouble when trying to get a mobile 3200+ to run in a desktop but not in a laptop. Any suggestions on what i could do to the old girl back up speed would be much appreciated.

 

[Johan45]

Are you sure that's not just the power saving feature that you are witnessing?? To test you would need to set windows to High Performance and run a stress program such as P95 to max out the cpu and then check the speed.

 

[Mandrake4565]

This^^^^

 

[trents]

As others have said, this is probably the effect of Cool N Quiet and other heat reducing, powersaving technologies when the system is not under load.

 

[ObsesivComplsiv]

Yep you guys were right on the money. It was the windows power options setting that was causing it. I kind of figured that AMD would have an application in charge of controlling those modes but when i looked through all of the OEM software and what was offered on the eMachines site I found nothing so i thought maybe it was in BIOS but no dice. Thanks for the help guys, I really appreciate it.