Windows Home Server and Pentium M "Speedstep" function

[Guest Lorenzo Sandini]

Hello,

 

I used to have a winXP pro machine as a file/ftp/web server in my home

and it worked quite. It is based on an Asus P4P800-SE motherboard, a

CT-479 adapter for Pentium M CPUs, and a Pentium M 770 (2.13GHz), 2 x

512MB DDR.

 

Under XP, the CPU throttled down to 800MHz when idle, and went up to max

frequency when under load (RARing archives for example).

 

Problem is the CPU won't automatically throttle up or down anymore in

WHS. I can manually adjust the frequency with utilities like NHC

(Notebook Hardware Controller) or Speedswitch, and this seems to work as

the current CPU speed is reported in the system properties tab, and the

CPU temp also goes up with higher frequencies. But it can only be

adjusted manually.

 

In XP's power managment options, I could select "minimal power

management" in XP, and dynamic frequency switching was enabled by

default for the CPU throttling function. That "minimal power management"

option is not there in WHS and I tried the other ones (laptop, etc...)

to no avail.

 

I am very close to going back to XP, but the trouble of backing up

everything again keeps me from doing that. Is there any way to enable

automatic Speedstep, to decrease my psychologial distress ?

 

Thanks

Lorenzo