Processor management in 2000

[Colonel O'Neill]

This should fix it:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\HAL]
"14140000FFFFFFFF"=dword:00000010

Info:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919521

This will change Windows 2000's HAL to use the PMTimer instead of the ACPI timer. It might drop the CPU by a bit, but nowhere near as far as the other apps will. Using the PMTimer will lessen the load on a machine with an ACPI timer issue, but this is more relevant on AMD chips than Intel chips, and will do little on Intel chips (this makes a huge difference on AMD processors).

This registry fix worked superbly, the starting (login) temperature went from 80 to 40 degrees! Although the fan still spun up during startup it didn't stay on for long.

However, the idle temperature for 2000 is still ten degrees higher than the XP counterpart, but that's not really a big issue.

[pointertovoid]

Thank you all!

KB919521 is probably what I had seen, well done.

When I assemble my new computer I'll try the register adjustment as well as the Speedstep patch provided through Lenovo (seems to be strictly an Intel patch in a Lenovo timestamped archive, so extract+setup should work on any brand), and then I'll tell you what I see there.