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Unread 30-03-2010, 15:34
Merle Merle is offline
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Re: Spontaneous motor skipping?

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Originally Posted by eugenebrooks View Post
Some instructions on how to get into the bios and change these
settings would be appreciated.
While the Classmate is booting up press the DEL key to get into the BIOS screen. When in the BIOS screen click on ADVANCED then CPU CONFIGURATION. I turned both the SpeedStep option and the C-State option to disabled (both were enabled).

I have not tried any variations of these two options (example, one enabled and the other disabled). From the websites I've read and the symptoms I've seen in my testing, my suspicion is the SpeedStep is the one that needs to be disabled, I just took the shotgun approach and disabled the C-State option as well as our competition starts this week. Its working for us so far, more testing with the bits of our bot that we kept tonight.

Merle Yoder
The GRUNTS Team #3146