Check for crap software.

Not much left running. I am starting to worry that maybe this laptop needs special toshiba drivers. I already downloaded them on my PC some time ago, from the looks of it it doesn't seem to be anything special I did come across some website that talks about power management for toshiba laptops... so this is left open as an option/possibly cause.

This is an example of something Toshiba provides, for pinning the CPU.

http://web1.toshiba.ca/support/isg/t...ocid=TSB001051

Question is can laptop function at 2.67 ghz without toshiba software ?

I checked bios settings, only two interesting ones, not many options in total

dynamic cpu/power: switch / low (something like that)
intel turbo boost: enabled / disabled.

Plug in the power adapter, and re-check the clock rate.
Just in case the on-battery profile is responsible.

It's on wall power for months now, hw monitor shows battery wear is 60%.

And it's still possible for Thermal issues to do that to it. Throttle it.

Not a single spike to 2.67 GHz ?! So doesn't seem to be throttling ?


Summary: I'm hoping your problem is the "crap software" kind,
because that's the easiest one to fix.

It's old 2012 toshiba don't really support it I think... but there is some driver website...

This laptop is also not capable of booting into sparky linux OS 64 bit for some reason (usb stick) Quite strange.

Booting into usb stick with windows 7 does work but I aborted it, don't want windows 7 usb stick version to start installing laptop crap.

"World of Warships is running in background" === burns GPU power ? Heats up CPU ???

One game at a time, is plenty. Zero games burns less power.

Was going to play it but first I want to solve this mystery... it does show that CPU does not go beyond 1.4 GHz for this game it should though apperently game doesn't take much cpu in port but still with web browser running at same time should be enough to go beyond 1.4 ghz but it doesnt.


In Windows 10, the Task Manager has "GPU Monitor", as long
as a modern enough WDDM driver is used. One of the WDDM driver
editions (on both NVidia and AMD) introduces GPU monitoring
in Task Manager.

Windows 7 is running on this laptop. I might try windows 10 on sub stick to see if that might fix anything or maybe go back to windows 7 on usb stick to see if that changes anything or a different linux version.

For now I will continue trouble shooting on windows 7 on laptop harddisk, getting that fixed would be nice, usb is only 2.0 so it's slow.

OpenGL is available, as long as some other thing didn't grab it first.

Quake 3 Arena did not run when laptop started with no other games running, so this opengl failure is a mystery, maybe something as special as version number related.

Use this tool, to verify the subsystems at the bottom are "ticked".
That's part of verifying the driver is working.

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-gpu-z/

I may try this later thanks.

Bye,
Skybuck.