Recent content by lgrenie

I seriously doubt it as 166 = 1.25 x 133 while 200 = 1.2 x 166 so the gain from 166 to 200 is noticebly smaller. SurJector

> With a little researching you should be able to change the > BIOS to automatically set the bit to 1 at start-up. That could be an idea. That should be even easy. Thank you for the suggestion. SurJector

Found it !! My CPU is an Athlon and my motherboard is an ASUS, the chipset is not configured to disconnect when the CPU is idle. When I do a normal boot, using WPCRSET I configure the chipset to disconnect (set high order bit of byte 0x92 to 1) at each boot (but not at each Resume From...

> nothing i can think of would cause a problem like that except a broken sensor > maybe when you come out of hibernate, whatever software is behind the sensor > doesn't resume correctly and gives false readings. just a guess, because nothing else makes sense That would be a nice idea, but...

> Well to me it sounds like it heats up until the water starts > circulating again. I'm no water cooling expert by any means, > but I though with water you have to wait for the water pump > to come up before you light up the CPU. Actually you don't have to wait until the water starts: it's...

To reply to all three of you together: - Hibernate is an ``educated shutdown'': the computer is shut down (I can, and often do, unplug it from the wall socket) but Windows takes notes of the programs and the driver running and saves their state. That way the boot is faster and the programs...

Hi, I have a computer with watercooling. The water cools the CPU and my Nvidia chip (not its memory). Right now the CPU is overclocked and the GPU is underclocked. The CPU idle temperature is usually 37ºC/99ºF. When I use the Hibernate function of Win XP to shutdown and restart, the idle temp...