/proc/cpuinfo reporting CPU at 600mHz (1.6gHz processor)

[Aped]

Not sure quite what's going on, but this old laptop is running fairly slowly; is there any reason for it to be underclocked by default or something? If so, what's the best route to take in undoing this nonsense?

Out-of-the-box install, no major changes to the OS since then. A few relative chunks of info, feel free to ask for more if it seems useful:

me@andrew-laptop:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 13
model name	: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz
stepping	: 8
cpu MHz		: 600.000
cache size	: 2048 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 2
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx up bts est tm2
bogomips	: 1197.10
clflush size	: 64

And a link to lshw -html: http://slurpm.com/output_laptop.html

Thanks in advance for any and all help.

[wojox]

Right click the top panel and Add to Panel

CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor.

You can adjust it from there. It defaults at on demand.

[Aped]

Wow that's so simple and elegant, thanks. I'd been looking at some cpufreq stuff which was not working well, thanks a ton man.

[wojox]

Your welcome, man.

[rohit6699]

Hi,
Just tried to add to the panel
"CPU frequency scaling".

It errors out saying that
"CPU frequency scaling is unsupported"

My ACPI is switched off since it is a dual core processor and ubuntu hangs if acpi is on.

Even thought the ACPI is off still it is detecting only one processor.
Found out using the command cat /proc/cpuinfo

~~~~~~~Posting the output~~~~~~~~
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.66GHz
stepping : 7
cpu MHz : 2666.451
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 1
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc up pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl tm2 cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 5332.90
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~END~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Help!!!!!!!!! Pleaseeee !!!!!!

[Yellow Pasque]

Have you tried a BIOS update?