T520 poor performance and SpeedStep problem

Hi to all the users in the forum!
I'm new to this forum and I would like to thanks for any future help that you'll give me.
After some months of using my new T520 (i7 2620m) I was really disappointed for the poor performance of this ThinkPad.
Briefly I've noticed slow responses to many programs in particular in the MS office enviroment (.ppt files) as well as on my gmail interface under firefox, and in general the Win7 environment. It sounds really strange to me, I came from a 5 years old Intel®-Centrino® (1.7Ghz) experience and the differences between the old and the new machine should be more sharp. So I've investigated to understand this behavior. Before that I've upgraded the system with the newest files.
To understend the behaviour I've used the following software (x64):
CPU-Z to evaluate the performance in terms of Core speed; Multiplier and Bus Speed
Prime95 to produce an heavy load
Intel processor ID Utility to produce a "certified" report.
The responses is always the same. The multiplier is stuck at 8X with a frequency of about 0.79Ghz and the gauge in the CPU performance of the Lenovo Power Manager” always indicating 29% (that is 0.79Ghz of the 2.7Ghz of the i7 2620M processor). Nothing change if I switch on the turbo boost or if I made some variation in the performance profile. The only change that I can observe/listen is an increase rotation of the system fan and the consequent noise increase when the turbo boost is on. Even during the “torture-test” of Prime95 no differences in frequency is observed.
The only way to obtain an higher frequency is to disable the speedstep technology from the BIOS setup, with the consequence to have the multiplier stuck to 24X with a frequency of 2.7Ghz…. but is not a solution!
The described behavior of this processor under Win7 is also observed with Ubuntu 11.04.
I’ve reported the problem to the technical support, and they ask me to run the “Lenovo Toolbox System” because is the only software that they can “trust”. So I did it and sent the log files. Now I’m waiting for a response and in the meantime I would like to discuss, report and share my experience to this forum.
Actually from my point of view, there is a serious problem with the i7 processor, that I can’t solve and a substitution is required. I’m disappointed because I’m using since some months a PC with reduced performance and because I spent my time to demonstrate this evidence. I hope to solve quickly this inconvenience and I’ll report to the forum any news from the technical support.
Thanks
Misuraka
Solved!
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The CPU will throttle down if the battery is removed. This is intentional for various reasons.
To extend overall battery longevity, use the provided Power Manager.
1) Launch Power Manager
2) Click Advanced in the top right
3) Go to the Battery tab
4) Click Battery Maintenance
5) Choose Custom charge threshold
6) Start charging from 80, stop charging at 90.
This should extend battery lifespan. Avoid overcharging it, and avoid overdepleting it. Lithium ion batteries don't last long under those circumstances.
In extended storage or when you know you will be using AC almost exclusively, set the charging threshold to 30 to 40, deplete it to 40%, then leave it there.
There's lots of technical details here: http://www.batteryuniversity.com/
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<TuckerKeynoteTest.zip>
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Then I switched back to BIOS B and no problems at all.
So what's up here with my 2 MPOWER boards, showing the same issues with BIOS 1.7? What I did wrong?
- MFLASH? May be. But I don't use it anymore. I use the MSIHQ USB Flashing Tool from this forum now which was also spread in the German forum.
- I never flashed BIOS beta versions, I always red articals how to flash and I think I did nothing wrong here.
- Overclocking? No. Unfortunatelly I bought an Intel i4770 CPU without K. Funny. So no overclock issues at all.
- Memory? I have fully equipped 32GB (G.Skill F3-2400C10Q-32GTX) and did the MEM86+ test successfully.
Day before yesterday I flashed BIOS 1.6 to BIOS A. All looks good until now. The intel ethernet board behaves well. No B2 messages.
I will further comment as soon there is anything new.
Do we have some issues with BIOS 1.7? I strongly belief....
I have seen BIOS V1.81 beta is out. But where is V1.8 official release? Anyway, I am tired of testing. If I do not have issues with 1.6 then I will use it.
Unfortunately the MSI Z87 MPOWER board is not yet widely spread. Otherwise we would have more user experiences.
Ok, any comments are highly appreciate it.
@ Corellon: Sometime I got A2 messages with black screen with BIOS V1.7
Which bios version had you installed when you experienced severe problems?
I guess V1.5 & V1.6 are save. 1.7 has got problems.

I am not able to launch FF everytime i tr to open it, it says FF has to submit a crash report, i even tried doing that and the report was submitted too, but stiil FF did not start, and the problem still persists, please help me solve this issue in English

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I am not able to launch FF everytime i try to open it, it says FF has to submit a crash report,and restore yr tabs. I even tried doing that and the report was submitted too, but still FF did not start, and the problem still persists, please help me solve this issue
'''(in English)'''

Hi Danny,
Per my understanding that you can't get the expect result by using the expression "=Count(Fields!TICKET_STATUS.Value=4) " to count the the TICKET_STATUS which value is 4, the result will returns the count of all the TICKET_STATUS values(206)
but not 180, right?
I have tested on my local environment and can reproduce the issue, the issue caused by you are using the count() function in the incorrect way, please modify the expression as below and have a test:
=COUNT(IIF(Fields!TICKET_STATUS.Value=4 ,1,Nothing))
or
=SUM(IIF(Fields!TICKET_STATUS=4,1,0))
If you still have any problem, please feel free to ask.
Regards,
Vicky Liu
Vicky Liu
TechNet Community Support

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i have upgraded my iPad mini to iOS 8. Ever since I upgraded to iOS 8 am facing blue screen issues and heating problem as well. This is really frustrating even the patch iOS 8.0.2 dint solve the problem. Are you guys listening our complaints. When will you fixing it.

The same thing happened to me on my 2012 Subaru Outback. I'm not sure this will help you since you have a Honda, but I'm posting this just in case.
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I am making code to try to make a game and my problem is that my code......

I am making code to try to make a game and my problem is that my code
will not let it change the hit everytime so im getting the first guy to hit 1 then next hits 8 and so on and always repeats.
Another problem is that I would like it to attack with out me telling it how much times to attack. I am using Object oriented programming.
Here is the code for my objects:
import java.lang.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.Random;
import static java.lang.Math.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.color.*;
class rockCrab {
     //Wounding formula
     double sL = 70;                                   // my Strength Level
     double bP = 1;                                   // bonus for prayer (is 1 times prayer bonus)
     double aB = 0;                                 // equipment stats
     double eS = (sL * bP) + 3;                         // effective strength
     double bD = floor(1.3 + (eS/10) + (aB/80) + ((eS*aB)/640));     // my base damage
     //Attack formula
     double aL = 50;                                   // my Attack Level
     double eD = 1;                                   // enemy's Defence
     double eA = aL / eD;                              // effective Attack
     double eB = 0;                                   // equipment bonus'
     double bA = ((eA/10) * (eB/10));                    // base attack
     //The hit formula
     double fA = random() * bA;
     double fH = random() * bD;
     double done = rint(fH - fA);
     //health formula
     double health = floor(10 + sL/10 * aL/10);
     rockCrab() {
     void attack() {
          health = floor(10 + sL/10 * aL/10);
          double done = rint(fH - fA);
          fA = random() * bA;
          fH = random() * bD;
          done = rint(fH - fA);
          System.out.println("Rockcrab hit" +done);
import java.lang.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.Random;
import static java.lang.Math.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.color.*;
class self {
     //Wounding formula
     double sL = 1;                                   // my Strength Level
     double bP = 1;                                   // bonus for prayer (is 1 times prayer bonus)
     double aB = 0;                                 // equipment stats
     double eS = (sL * bP) + 3;                         // effective strength
     double bD = floor(1.3 + (eS/10) + (aB/80) + ((eS*aB)/640));     // my base damage
     //Attack formula
     double aL = 1;                                   // my Attack Level
     double eD = 1;                                   // enemy's Defence
     double eA = aL / eD;                              // effective Attack
     double eB = 0;                                   // equipment bonus'
     double bA = ((eA/10) * (eB/10));                    // base attack
     //The hit formula
     double fA = random() * bA;
     double fH = random() * bD;
     double done = rint(fH - fA);
     //health formula
     double health = floor(10 + sL/10 * aL/10);
     self() {
     void attack() {
          health = floor(10 + sL/10 * aL/10);
          fA = random() * bA;
          fH = random() * bD;
          done = rint(fH - fA);
          System.out.println("You hit" +done);
}Here is the main code that writes what the objects do:
class fight {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          self instance1 = new self();
          rockCrab instance2 = new rockCrab();
          instance2.health = instance2.health - instance1.done;
          System.out.println("You hit: " +instance1.done);
          System.out.println("rockCrabs health: " + instance2.health);
          instance1.health = instance1.health - instance2.done;
          System.out.println("RockCrab hit: " +instance2.done);
          System.out.println("rockCrabs health: " + instance1.health);
          instance2.health = instance2.health - instance1.done;
          System.out.println("You hit: " +instance1.done);
          System.out.println("rockCrabs health: " + instance2.health);
          instance1.health = instance1.health - instance2.done;
          System.out.println("RockCrab hit: " +instance2.done);
          System.out.println("rockCrabs health: " + instance1.health);
          instance2.health = instance2.health - instance1.done;
          System.out.println("You hit: " +instance1.done);
          System.out.println("rockCrabs health: " + instance2.health);
          instance1.health = instance1.health - instance2.done;
          System.out.println("RockCrab hit: " +instance2.done);
          System.out.println("rockCrabs health: " + instance1.health);
          instance2.health = instance2.health - instance1.done;
          System.out.println("You hit: " +instance1.done);
          System.out.println("rockCrabs health: " + instance2.health);
          instance1.health = instance1.health - instance2.done;
          System.out.println("RockCrab hit: " +instance2.done);
          System.out.println("rockCrabs health: " + instance1.health);
}when the code is run it says something like this:
you hit 1
RockCrabs health is 9
RockCrab hit 7
your health is 38
you hit 1
RockCrabs health is 8
RockCrab hit 7
your health is 31
you hit 1
RockCrabs health is 7
RockCrab hit 7
your health is 24
you hit 1
RockCrabs health is 6
RockCrab hit 7
your health is 17
my point is whatever some one hits it always repeats that
my expected output would have to be something like
you hit 1
RockCrabs health is 9
RockCrab hit 9
your health is 37
you hit 3
RockCrabs health is 6
RockCrab hit 4
your health is 33
you hit 2
RockCrabs health is 4
RockCrab hit 7
your health is 26
you hit 3
RockCrabs health is 1
RockCrab hit 6
your health is 20
Edited by: rade134 on Jun 4, 2009 10:58 AM

[_Crosspost_|http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5390217] I'm locking.

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A rather odd and annoying problem has recently been occuring on my MBP. A couple days ago my remote (after working without fail for over a year now) suddenly stopped working. Yesterday night and this morning it started working again but after a while it stopped again. I've read dozens of support articles which haven't really helped because there seems to be another problem.
Most articles have stated that there is an option to disable the IR receiver in the "security" window under system preferences. When the IR and remote are not working this option disappears but when they are working the option is present. I have also tried replacing the battery without any result.
I am now thinking that it might have something to do with heat buildup because it is mainly occuring after the laptop has been on for about a half hour, so I am going to try to borrow someone's fan.
If anyone has any suggestions to solve this I would appreciate it if you could help. Thanks!
MacBook Pro 1.83 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.9)

check out this thread. Seems to be the same problem.
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hello. ive been with verizon for about 10 years maybe. ive been overall happy with the service and customer service. but the prices should be alot lower.lol. i started out with the motorolas then switched to the lg phones. only problem with the motorola was the speakers. not loud enough. could never hear the phone ring. the lgs usually suffer from the same problem.
i had a few phone problems but nothing like this lg ally. im on my second one and about to be my 3rd one in about 3 months. 1st phone i had every problem under the sun. this phone i am suffering from text message problems and gps problems. i suffer from what everyone else has problems with. the messages wont send. they will eventually lock up. it will show the envelope with the red explanation point ( i think thats the graphic). then usually everytime when i sent a text the texts will close. it will send then bounce back and show up as a draft and i have to resend it and wait for it to go thru. finally the last problem with the texts. when i send a text a phone number from my contacts shows up and freezes on the screen. its in white text with a black background. its the same number every time. it stays on the screen until i restart or pull my battery out.
gps. when i open up google gps that comes with the phone i make sure the gps is on... when the directions are found and the map pops up 9 out of 10 times it just keeps saying searching for gps. the turn by turn never is found. the 1 time it does it takes a good 10 minutes to be found. atleast on my first one ally the gps did work 8 out of 10 times. it just took a good 5-10 minutes for gps to be found and show turn by turn.
anyone else have these problems? where you able to fix them or did you need to get a new phone? the 2.1 update was supposed to fix problems. i think they just made it worse. the ally is supposed to have 2.2 froyo. where is it. is it ever going to get it. i got this phone because i like the lgs and the keyboard. also the sales representative on the phone was giving the lg ally rave reviews. why couldnt he say dont buy this go with a motorola droid. this phone is the biggest junk ever made

I do apologize you are having trouble with your device I looked in our information system on the LG Ally in reguards to issues you are having it states if you have the Free Droid Security anti virus protection application down loaded it will cause the phone to lock up or freeze. Check and make sure you do not have the application on your device. Check you GPS settings and make sure correct. Go to Settings; Location & Security; make sure GPS is on wireless network. If this does not fix issue you can try doing a Master Reset on your device. Make sure your contacts are saved in your G-mail account or through Back Up Assistance.
Master Reset/Soft Reset:
Factory Reset option 1
From the main screen, touch menu tab
Touch Settings
Touch Privacy
Touch Factory Data reset
Touch Reset Phone
Warning: This will erase all data from your phone, including:
Your Google account
System and application data and settings
Downloaded Applications
It will not erase: Current System software and bundled applications; SD Card files, such as music or Photos
Factory Reset option 2 - Warning this will reset device back to original factory settings.
Turn off the phone
Press and hold "home" + "end" + "volume up or down" keys together for a few seconds when the device is power off
Once device displays boot information, release keys.
Soft Reset
Press the Power key.
Touch Power off.
Touch OK.
Press the Power key to power on the device.
or
Remove battery cover, remove battery and reinstall.Also there is a new update for LG Ally it will be the Froyo 2.2 but there is not release date available at this time it will post on your device when available. Hope this Helps. Leslie

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