I have a AMD Athlon Processor. Its speed used to be 1.55 Ghz and now its 1.16 Ghz. What made it slow down, and how can I fix it?
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RockyRun2011
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That's impossible, how are you seeing this? The clock speed of a CPU is a constant.
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There are a few things that may have happened. Some mobos allow a multiplier change in the bios. If your bios battery is weak or dead, the bios may revert to a lower setting of the multiplier. You'd either have to check your mobo's manual or go into the bios and hunt down the setting. I have an Asus P4533sx and I've had this happen to me, where my celeron 2.0 is Overclocked in the bios to 2.6. The mobo battery died on me and it reverted down to the 2.0 gig speed again. New battery, reset the multiplier back to my original overclock and I was good to go at 2.6 again. The other thing that comes to mind and it's not good news, is that a few transistors on the cpu have gone to heaven. If this is the case, there is no fix. You're stuck with that speed until you pop in a new cpu. It'll be one of the two, because I don't believe those Athlons slow down under a thermal load, like an Intel Celeron does.
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