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I looked these up, they seem to be custom made for the Panasonic Toughbook. Not sure how compatible they are with other systems, and at almost $150 a piece it's not worth the risk

A word of warning when doing the "Speedstep" hardware mod: The Intel docs state that some lower models ('AA' - 600mhz, 650mhz) have a different layout and voltage to the latter models. I have come to the conclusion these CPUs handle the speedstep circuit differently (from posts by another person on ...

May be KevP can elaborate on his Win XP deep sleep utility as to whether it already does/can incorporate L2 cache enabling and would it be an appropriate solution for L2 cache enabling by Win XP users. Also will it still be harmless for those who do not need the deepsleep component and only need L2...

Hi, I don't know how this could be achieved from within Windows. A quick Google search turned up some hits for running a program on ACPI resume by using an event notification. I'd have to research this (free time is in short supply at the moment!). On the Armada we don't have this problem, the L2 ca...

Sorry, it got moved during maintenance. It's back up now. Let me know you results..

Wow, intriguing thread! Somehow I managed to read it all over a few days :) Thanks to Sharedoc's info I have applied the SpeedStep mod to several PIII CPUs and got them to run at full speed -- my only problem was getting the software to trigger deepsleep and enable the cache properly. It's tricky si...