So my laptop took a hit from a full glass of water. The keyboard and battery are dead, but the laptop otherwise seems functional. Well, sort of. For some reason the CPU is maxed out at 800MHz. It is an Intel i5-2520M in a Dell Precision M6600. I did find a workaround, but it's a pain.
I found a utility called Throttlestop that will let me manually force the multiplier from 8x to 25x once I check of the "Clock Modulation" option. The CPU then runs at it's rated 2.5GHz. The catch is that it takes forever to boot up and launch the utility. Once it, um, recalibrates the CPU it runs fine until I stop Throttlestop or reboot.
So what might be causing this? Is there anyway to restore normal operation to the CPU?
I found a utility called Throttlestop that will let me manually force the multiplier from 8x to 25x once I check of the "Clock Modulation" option. The CPU then runs at it's rated 2.5GHz. The catch is that it takes forever to boot up and launch the utility. Once it, um, recalibrates the CPU it runs fine until I stop Throttlestop or reboot.
So what might be causing this? Is there anyway to restore normal operation to the CPU?