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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (157092)	1/28/2002 8:17:53 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 186894

Re: Here is something that you might find interesting. "I was wondering if you've heard anything more on the dell i8000 issue... I talked to tech support and they blew me off saying that the BIOS does the speedstep switching just as well as the software does. "Well that's BS because I tested it and it certainly doesn't. once it's at 550 MHz (or 700MHz depending on whether or not it's plugged in when I start it up) it stays at the speed whether or not I plug/unplug it." SpeedStep should not be regulated by the BIOS, as publicly available documents from Intel make clear theinquirer.net