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Vista - RE: Normal to report the wrong CPU speed in a VM?

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Old 11-03-2008   #1 (permalink)
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RE: Normal to report the wrong CPU speed in a VM?

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> I noticed that while Vista properly reports the host CPU speed on its System
> page (3.00Ghz, 2.99Ghz), the guest System page (also running Vista) reports:
> 3.00GHz, 13MHz. So I take that to mean that guest Vista thinks the CPU is
> running at 13MHz. Whose bug is this, VPC 2007's or Vista's?
>
> Thanks
It sounds like this is related to the /usepmtimer issue, which is not confined just to AMD procs.

http://blogs.technet.com/perfguru/ar...-boot-ini.aspx

Try editing the boot.ini file and adding the switch to the end.

/usepmtimer

Then reboot.

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