Odd problem relating to processor speed

I'm hoping that there's some simple fix to this, because it's a simple problem in all honesty.
Usually, when using my iBook I often switch between the "Highest" and "Reduced" processor speed options, depending on what I'm doing, where I am, etc; however, recently a problem has popped up. The speed of the system seems to be "stuck" in Reduced mode, regardless of whether I put it into "Automatic" or "Highest" again. I've checked the temperature, and sure enough - it doesn't even go above 50-55 degrees Celsius, whereas on "Highest" it would happily go up to 70-73 degrees Celsius if I was needing the processing power.
I'm seeing formatting as an option, but would really rather not if I don't have to... Completely open to suggestions.

Try resetting the PMU. Do that by simultaneously pressing and then releasing Shift-Control-Option-Power on the keyboard. Wait 5 seconds and start the iBook.

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Tecra M2 PTM20E - processor speed at 598Mhz

Hello,
I have tecra M2 model no. PTM20E-4MP1N-GR.
One problem was appear:
Processor speed is 1.6GHz, but when I check in the Windows System Properties, the speed is 598Mhz, and system is very slow.
How to change to higher?
CPU tab are not shown in SWsetup.
It is not also possible to change at standard setup after reboot!
Please help. :)
Best Regards
DarJan

Very strange :)
I found some similar problem on Toshiba forum. The most solution is to come to Authorization Service.
I also found, that problem is with processor microcode.
Processor installed in Tecra is Pentium M 725 P3D (Dotham) with microcode: MU06d618.
My next question is: how to change microcode in EC/KBC?
And, where may I find "Diagnostic Test Disk" for Tecra M2?
Could anyone help me?
Any solutions?
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Reducing Processor speed for Power problems

I have already replaced the power supply in my G5 20"iMac under Apples self-install program. That problem was resolved (no power), but now the computer has been unexpectedly shutting off and has frequent high fan noise . I reduced the processor speed and it has been usable. I plan to take it to an Apple Store because my 1yr. waranty is almost up, however, my serial # falls in the Repair Extension program for Video and Power issues.
I am hoping they will diagnose on the spot and order a new logic board or whatever. I do not want to leave the computer at the store while a part is ordered as it is usable.
Does anyone know what I can expect at the Store?
And, in general, can anyone tell me what happens when the computer is used with reduced Processor speed.I have not really noticed a difference, but I think I am just masking the problem.
Thank you

Hi
If you do decide to go with a processor upgrade, they're available from a number of manufacturers including Giga Designs, Sonnet, OWC/PowerLogix/NewerTech and FastMac:
http://www.gigadesigns.com/
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/cpu_upgrades.html
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/accelerators/
http://fastmac.com/
Most of the above web sites have more detailed information about their processor upgrades and downloadable installation manuals and/or videos, so you can check compatibility and what's involved in replacing the processor.
Here in the UK the Sonnet upgrades seem the most readily available and are available from the following stockists amongst others:
http://www.macheaven.co.uk/
http://www.macupgrades.co.uk/store/
I've also ordered from OWC in the States before without any problems. With the good exchange rate you may save some money, although be aware I've always ended up paying some form of import tax, so the savings aren't as great as you may expect.
If it were me I'd consider a 7455 based OWC Mercury Extreme upgrade:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/accelerators/OWC-Mercury-Extreme/
They seem to be highly recommended, compatible with OS 9.2 and OS X and don't require any third party firmware patches or kernel extensions etc. If you click the More Info button for the 1.467-1.5GHz upgrade, you'll see some benchmarks comparing it to the stock 400MHz processor.
Another option would be to look for an original Apple dual 450MHz or 500MHz processor card on eBay that's been pulled from a Gigabit Ethernet model. Assuming your computer's compatible with dual processors (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13551), it would offer a modest speed boost.
I hope this helps.

I recently bought two iMac quad core i5 processor speed 2.5 Ghz. Every time I use Air Drop and I send a file from one iMac to the other, a black curtain drops and I am asked to restart the computer!!! What can I do?

I recently bought two iMac quad core i5 processor speed 2.5 Ghz. Every time I use Air Drop and I send a file from one iMac to the other, a black curtain drops and I am asked to restart the computer!!! What can I do?

That's a kernel panic and indicates some sort of problem either with the computer's hardware or software. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on diagnosing kernel panics. It would help to post the panic log: Mac OS X- How to log a kernel panic.
Meanwhile, try booting the computers into Safe Mode then restarting normally. If this is simply a disk repair or cache file problem then this may fix it.
You can also try creating a new admin account on each computer then booting into the new account. This would help determine if the problem is related to a bad file in the user accounts.

Odd problems with reading DVD media [concluded]

There is an odd problem I've encountered...(I'm not sure if its a bug with Arch Linux or Linux in general).
Firstly, the details:
* I've updated the systems (using "extra", "current", and "community" respositories). So its the current one (0.80 "Voodoo"). I'm NOT using "Unstable" respository.
* I've already added the user to the "optical" and "storage" groups. So there's no problems in relations to permissions.
* My fstab entries for the CD and DVD drives are default (I didn't touch them)...That is, "iso9660" and "udf" respectively.
* My desktop environment is KDE 3.5.5...And I have changed the behaviour of the desktop icons such that DVD media, CD media, and USB devices will have an icon pop-up as soon as you plug them in.
* I have "hal" loaded in the DAEMONS of /etc/rc.conf
* I'm using 4 different Linux systems with the following DVD burners.
=> Pioneer DVR-108
=> Sony DW-Q120A
=> Hitachi-LG GCC-4240N (DVD-ROM/CD-burner combo)
* There are three Sempron 2800+ (Socket 754, 1.6Ghz) boxes and the last one is on an IBM R40 ThinkPad, and I know you can't read DVD-R media on that. But it should be able to read DVD+R media without issue.
* Two of the Semprons are running Arch, as well as the ThinkPad. The final Sempron box is running Ubuntu 6.06.1
* When I installed K3b I did: pacman -S k3b dvd+rw-tools
* All the DVD media is Verbatim DataLifePlus ones.
Here's what I've done...
I've burnt two DVD media (they're just video files from last year's Blender 2006 conference thing, so its legal stuff).
One is a DVD+R and the other is DVD-R media. Both were done on a Windows 2000 Pro SP4 box using Nero 6.6.1.4
What's the problem?
Well, KDE in the Arch Linux boxes doesn't recognise the media!...There is no DVD icon that automatically pops up on any of the Arch Linux boxes!
When I run dmesg on the Arch boxes, the only relevant info I get is:
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISOFS: changing to secondary root
Now if I re-insert these DVD media onto an Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS box...The DVD+R works perfectly! While the DVD-R does not.
When I run dmesg on this box, I get the following:
[17179654.808000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplet e Error }
[17179654.808000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
[17179654.808000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[17179654.808000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplet e Error }
[17179654.808000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
[17179654.808000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[17179654.808000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplet e Error }
[17179654.808000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
[17179654.808000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[17179654.812000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplet e Error }
[17179654.812000] hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
[17179654.812000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[17179654.812000] hdc: DMA disabled
[17179654.812000] hdc: ide_intr: huh? expected NULL handler on exit
[17179654.860000] hdc: ATAPI reset complete
[17179655.364000] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[17179655.412000] ISOFS: changing to secondary root
[17179725.140000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[17179729.348000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[17181395.032000] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[17181395.032000] ISOFS: changing to secondary root
If I re-burn the data onto a DVD+RW, Arch and Ubuntu immediately sees it, and KDE (or Gnome in Ubuntu), will have a DVD icon popping up! I can view the video clips without issue!
Now here's the really odd part...
When I load up K3b on either Arch OR Ubuntu, they recognise all DVD media! (As in, they can read the media disc information!)...Tools => DiskInfo
If I click on the PIONEER - DVD-RW DVR-108 on the tree menu on the left side in K3b, (to view the contents of the DVD-R or DVD+R media), it can't read and pops up an error message informing about a read problem. It suggests I try dmesg|tail to see what's wrong.
When I do that, I get...
# dmesg|tail
grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block 18446744073708569376 for device hdc
UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block 18446744073708569376 for device hdc
UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block 18446744073708569376 for device hdc
UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block 18446744073708569376 for device hdc
UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block 18446744073708569376 for device hdc
UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
I repeat the same procedure on DVD+RW, and it works perfectly!
Should I use another burning application instead of Nero on the Windows box?
Could it be the way I burn things?
(Some DVD+R and DVD-R are burnt with multisession while others aren't.)
Has anyone else experienced similar issues?
What are your "workarounds" or fixes?

It *should* work...But they don't.
I tried this...
mount -t auto /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd
I get this...
mount: block device /dev/dvd is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/dvd,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
I then do dmesg|tail
grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block 18446744073708569376 for device hdc
UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
If I try this...
mount -t iso9660 /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd
I get this...
mount: block device /dev/dvd is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/dvd,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
I then do dmesg|tail
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
If I stick in a DVD-R that is burnt in one go without multisession, I get this in the dmesg
UDF-fs: Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly mount
UDF-fs INFO UDF 0.9.8.1 (2004/29/09) Mounting volume 'SW', timestamp 2006/11/07 19:37 (1000)
It reads this disc perfectly and KDE pops up a DVD icon.
I'm scratching my head as I'm not sure what is the problem.
Could it be hal or the way the DVD media was formatted?

HT4623 Is this the most up to date article on up dating the iPhone - it there anything about the problems relating to the up date to OS 6 - my G3 no longer works and Apple seems to have gone to ground. No Genius bar appointments available for a week!

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OS X version 10.6.8 or later
400MB of available disk space
Broadband Internet connection to use the iTunes Store
Windows System Requirements
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New E70 - What is the processor speed?

Does anybody have details of the E70's processor speed?
Based on the currently available specs this phone seems to be exactly what Im looking for to replace my 9300. My only concern is whether or not it performs better than the 9300 at opening and viewing reasonably sized documents such as pdf, word and spreadsheets. I find that my 9300 is woefully slow at this and at times it is practically unuseable as a business phone.
Thanks in advance.
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if you find the 9300 slow, then it will be unlikely that the e70 will be any better.
i also use a 9300 for work and find that it is very adequate for sending and receiving emails with attachments etc.
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1.1 performance problems related to system configuration?

It seems like a lot of people are having serious performance problems with Aperture 1.1 in areas were they didn't have any (or at least not so much) problems in the previous 1.01 release.
Most often these problems occur as slow behaviour of the application when switching views (especially into and out of full view), loading images into the viewer or doing image adjustments. In most cases Aperture works normal for some time and then starts to slow down gradually up to point were images are no longer refreshed correctly or the whole application crashes. Most of the time simply restarting Aperture doesn't help, one has to restart the OS.
Most of the time the problems occur in conjunction with CPU usage rates which are much higher than in 1.0.1.
For some people even other applications seem to be affected to a point where the whole system has to be restarted to get everything working up at full speed again. Also shutdown times seem to increase dramatically after such an Aperture slowdown.
My intention in this thread is to collect information from users who are experiencing such problems about their system configuration. At the moment it does not look like these problems are related to special configurations only, but maybe we can find a common point when we collect as much information as possible about system where Aperture 1.1 shows this behaviour.
Before I continue with my configuration, I would like to point out that this thread is not about general speed issues with Aperture. If you're not able to work smoothly with 16MPix RAW files on G5 systems with Radeon 9650 video cards or Aperture is generally slow on your iBook 14" system where you installed it with a hack, than this is not the right thread. I fully understand if you want to complain about these general speed issues, but please refrain from doing so in this thread.
Here I only want to collect information from people who either know that some things works considerably faster in the previous release or who notice that Aperture 1.1 really slows down after some time of use.
Enough said, here is my information:
- Powermac G5 Dualcore 2.0
- 2.5 GB RAM
- Nvidia 7800GT (flashed PC version)
- System disk: Software RAID0 (2 WD 10000rpm 74GB Raptor drives)
- Aperture library on a hardware RAID0 (2 Maxtor 160GB drives) connected to Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 PCIe adapter
- Displays: 17" and 15" TFT
I do not think, that we need more information, things like external drives (apart from ones used for the actual library), superdrive types, connected USB stuff like printers, scanners etc. shouldn't make any difference so no need to report that. Also it is self-evident that Mac OS 10.4.6 is used.
Of interest might be any internal cards (PCIe/PCI/PCI-X...) build into your system like my RAID adapter, Decklink cards (wasn't there a report about problems with them?), any other special video or audio cards or additional graphic cards.
Again, please only post here if you're experiencing any of the mentioned problems and please try to keep your information as condensed as possible. This thread is about collecting data, there are already enough other threads where the specific problems (or other general speed issues) are discussed.
Bye,
Carsten
BTW: Within the next week I will perform some tests which will include replacing my 7800GT with the original 6600 and removing as much extra stuff from my system as possible to see if that helps.

Yesterday i had my first decent run in 1.1 and was pleased i avoided a lot perfromance issues that seemed to affect others.
After i posted, i got hit by a big slow-down in system perfromance. I tried to quit Aperture but couldn't, it had no tasks in its activity window. However Activity Monitor showed Aperture as a 30 thread 1.4GB Virtual memory hairball soaking-up 80-90% of my 4 cpu's. Given the high cpu activity i suspected the reason was not my 2GB of RAM, althought its obviously better with more. So what caused the sudded decerease in system perfromance after 6 hours of relative trouble free editing/sorting with 1.1 ?
This morning i re-created the issue. Before i go further, when i ran 1.1 for the first time i did not migrate my whole library to the new raw algorithum (its not called the bleeding edge for nothing). So this morning i selected one project to migrate all its raw images to 1.1 and after the progress bar completed its work, the cpus ramped and system got bogged-down again.
So Aperture is doing a background task that is consuming large amounts of cpu power, shows nothing in its activity monitor and takes a very long time to complete. My project had 89 raw images migrated to the 1.1 algorithum and it took 4 minutes to complete those 'background processes' (more reconstituting of images?). I'm not sure what its doing, but it takes a long time and shows no obvious sign it is normal. If you leave it to complete its work, the system returns to normal. More of an issue is the system allows you to continue to work as the background processes crank, compounding the heavy workload.
Bit of a guess this, but is this what is causing people system's problems ? As i said if i left my quad alone for 4 minutes all returns as normal. Its just not normal to think it will ever end, so you do more and compound the slow-down ?
In the interests of research i did another project migrating 245 8MB raws to the 1.1 algorithum and it took 8 minutes. First 5mins consumed 1GB of virtual memory over 20 threads at average 250% CPU usage for Aperture alone. The last three minutes saw the cpus ramp higher to 350%, virtual memory increase to 1.2GB. After the 8 minutes all returned to nornal and fans slowed down (excellent fan/noise behaviour on these quads).
Is this what others are seeing ?
When you force quit Aperture during these system slow-downs what effect does this having on your images ? Do the uncompleted background processes restart when you go to try and view them ?
If i get time i'll try and compare to my MBP.

Variable Processor Speed

All
Was wondering if there is a way to change the processor speed or if it has something to do with how you change the batter settings. Ie performance vs battery life. Im running duo core temp and it shows that im running at 1.5GHz and not 2.0. I have a MB Black 2.0 512MB Ram (2GB in the mail)
Thanks

There have been a lot of discussions about memory allocation in the past, but briefly I touch on a few points. When an array is preallocated (initialized) to be a certain size LabVIEW is then able at compile time to set aside a certain amount of memory for that array. Then, if you are using the "replace array element" function within your loop the array isn't growing, just the values are being changed. If you are building the array in the loop, by appending to the existing array for instance, LabVIEW will continuously have to try and allocate memory space to the increasingly bigger array, sometimes having to move it to a whole new memory area. Additionally, and there are discussions of this in the other threads, if you branch the wires to different functions in the loop, LabVIEW will create copies of the initial array, compounding the whole problem, greatly effecting the execution speed, etc. There have been a lot of discussions about the effects of using the various types of variables (e.g. locals and globals) and other efficiency impacts, for instance having an array of double connected to an indicator of single (or any other type mismatch) which is another thing that creates a copy of the data in memory. You can see that it wouldn't take too many of these to start having an impact on your programs speed. Do a search on this forum for memory usage, memory allocation, efficiency, etc. and you will see some of these discussions. One of the "nuggets" which initially deals with "Action Engines" discusses some of the causes and effects. When you do search, check the date stamps, some of these might be a little old.
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private int getMHz(int maxi)
1783 {
1784 int i= 2;
1785 long duration, start= System.currentTimeMillis();
1786 while (--maxi != 0)
1787 {
1788 if ((maxi & 1) == 0)
1789 i += 2;
1790 // if maxi is even, add 2 to i, we don't add if it's odd.
1791 }
1792 duration= System.currentTimeMillis() - start;
1793 int mhz= 0;
1794 if (duration != 0)
1795 {
1796 // mhz = number of CPU cycles for the loop : 6
1797 // * number of loops : i
1798 // / (number of cycles per second in 1MHz / number of ms in 1s / 100)
1799 // = 1000000 / 1000 /100
1800 // = 10 so we divide by 10
1801 // / duration in ms
1802 // so now mhz holds a value in MHz multiplied by 100 to have 2 decimal figures
1803 mhz= 6 * i / 10 / (int)duration;
1804 // rounding the decimal figure
1805 if ((mhz - (mhz / 10) * 10) >= 5)
1806 mhz= mhz + 10;
1807 mhz /= 10;
1808 // keeps one decimal figure instead of two
1809 // always return a non zero value (test successful)
1810 if (mhz == 0)
1811 mhz= 1;
1812 }
1813 return mhz;
1814 }
He wirtes at line 1796 that mhz = number of CPU cycles for the loop : 6
Why is number of CPU cycles for the loop 6? Where did he found that?
Thanks

He wirtes at line 1796 that mhz = number of CPU
cycles for the loop : 6
Why is number of CPU cycles for the loop 6? Where did
he found that?Well, I guess, he checked how many byte code instruction this loop takes. He forgets that this figure does not say anything about the amount of real CPU cycles it takes to make one loop. In consequence, the outcome of the computation is mosty setainly wrong.

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Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Invalid volume directory count
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Invalid volume file count
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Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
Repairing volume.
Missing directory record (id = 4871)
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I'm having an odd problem with iMovie that has me stumped so far. I'm currently using a borrowed DVcamcorder to import my footage. So far I can only import footage that was taped using that exact camcorder. I have other footage, (also miniDV format) that was created on a different camera, and it won't import properly. It comes out very jumpy, almost as if the frame rate is off or it's not scanning the fields properly, playing only every other one. The camera also gives me a "clean heads" message that only appears when I try to use the "foreign" video. The heads don't need cleaning, and I've checked the frame rate. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm lost so far!!
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Most manufacturers mention this ..in very obscure language.. in their camcorder manuals, saying that LP tapes from other camcorders might not play properly, or tapes recorded in LP mode might not play in other camcorders.
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I'm using the Flash 8 Video Encoder to convert .mov files to flv files. On my station I have the following:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 12 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP11.005C.B08
SMC Version: 1.7f10
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Max Date Rate: 300 kbps
Frame Rate: Same as Source
Audio Data Rate: 48 kbps (mono)
500 x 333 pixels.
HOWEVER, on an associate's computer he is able to convert under the same specs, same files, etc. in 1 hour 40 minutes.
His computer specs are:
Power Mac G5
Processor Speed - 2.3 GHz
2-CPU's
L2 Cache - 1 mb per CPU
Memory - 16 GB
Bus Speed 1.15 GHz
My computer has much more powerful processor, so we're confused why it's taking longer on my computer.
I also have a second internal drive but presently the programs and source file are on my system HD. Someone suggested that I should try to make sure that the Video Encoder has max RAM allocated to it as well as having the scratch disk and cache set to the second internal drive. I don't know how to do this or even if it's possible but looking for advice and suggestions on how to better optimize the Video Encoder and would appreciate any help with this ASAP.
Thanks!

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Is it possible to upgrade the processor speed of my G4 flat panel imac? All of a sudden, it has become an issue and I cannot afford a new mac at this time.

Hi,
Its not really practical to do this. I think a company called daystar ( used? ) offered an option here, it was very costly and often created more problems than it solved.
Sorry.
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