The COMPAQ Armada M700 Model ranges from 350 and up MHz.
If you go to the compaq web site you can plug in the serial number and get the specifics on your machine.

If you were running on battery then the processor will run a a slower rate that if it is on AC power.

Thanks for your answer.

I am now using the AC power. I know if using battery the cpu will slow.
When using the former BIOS , using AC Power ,XP said it is PIII 700MHz(infact not exactly ), using battery XP said it is PIII 550MHz(infact not exactly ).

The bad news is i lost the backup bios file,so couldn't roll back.

run dirext x diagnostic and see what it says your proc is...

or you could get the intel cpuid prog and see what you really have...

the thing is that it doesnt really matter too much what xp thinks it is... it only matters how fast it actually runs. XP thinking that it is a 550 will not slow it down to a 550 if the bios in fact says it is a 700

another thing that you could do is a free prog called sisift sandra and the cpu diag tool and see what it says you are running at..

hth
waffle

thanks a  lot.
 

I download and use the SiSoftware Sandra.

In "Information Modules" section
CPU & BIOS Information said:the CPU is 697MHz,
Performance Rating is PR836

BUT In "Benchmarking Modules" section
it is PIII 547MHz,
Performance Rating is PR656

So IN FACT it is near 547MHz?

I also using WCPUID to test, when i refresh the result,
it display 547.51MHz and 696.83MHz from time to time.
at then i am using AC power.

Thanks for any help.

why not do it the old fashioned way & open the laptop up and see for urself ;) wink wink! just kidding!

:) SD

what is happaning is that your comp is slowing itsekf down to conserve energy from time to time regardless of the fact that it is connected to a power source versus a battery, it is still tring to be effecient, there may be a setting somewhere in the advanced power management to disable the speedsteping or cpu slow down if it really annoys you. if have exp with laptops and usually at one point you can go into win and see it is xxx cpu then after a reboot or later on go back and it says it is xxx cpu

this is not really a diff as you confirmed with the cpu check that it is indeed a ~700

if this really annoys you you may be able to find the previous bios at

www.driverguide.com 

then you can roll back to a previos version

but in my opinion this is a non issue


waffle

power management is located under
control panel
power options

see if there is any setting to stop speedstep

waffle

Thanks waffle for your kind help.

i have stop speedstep in BIOS,then the CPU is just 550MHz.
From  web,i found that if stop Speedstep, the CPU  will work in the low frequence model.

I use WCPUid software,run it's  Real Time Clock Checker,then can see most time,the clock is 547.60MHz, occasionally it is 696.83MHz.

So My computer's Speedstep couldn't work well. In fact, the computer should select ~700MHz when using AC power,select ~550MHz when using battery power.
The only thing is i update my bios.

So...., I realy want to roll back, but can't find the old bios. This new one couldn't work well on my computer.

this seems to be a proevios one

http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/Armada/us/download/13593.html

waffle

Thank you all.

I found this Bios,it can work:
SP14884.EXE      ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp14501-15000/sp14884.exe      1096K      July 24, 2000
TITLE: Armada E700/M700 System BIOS (ROMPaq)
VERSION: 686H_1999.1201B Rev A

This is what my notebook use before. I decided to use this not the newest one.

hi,
i know this thread is old, but i have a Armada E500, which kind of seems to have the same issue. As i have found out this is caused by Intel Speed Step Technology which automatically reduces the processor speed to conserver power.  The only time my laptop displays 600MHz which is the actual speed of the processor as displayed in the bios is when the laptop on running on AC with the battery pulled out (running only on AC), i hope this information helps, you can disable Intel Speed step in the bios if you want.

Cheers !
Abeetha