Hello,
I'm all new here, I hope this is a place where someone knows what to make of this:
So I had Fan Control 2.1 installed, worked fine, until I realized that it severely seem to affect my battery life. I deinstalled it, made an SMC reset and got the original fan behaviour back via starting smcfancontrol for one time. All good.
But still, for a 12 months old MBP a running time of roughly 3 hours is not enough, compared to my friends MBPs. So I started researching and ended up checking with Reggie SE the parameters of my CPU.
Maybe you can check there too, maybe it's nothing, but on my machine when I click on PLATFORM_ID Register 17 "Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology" is unticked, both on battery and hooked to power and more important, register 27 "Sample" is ticked. I read somewhere that means I don't have a production grade CPU. True?
I really would like to have a full functional MBP, be sure that SpeedStep is activated. Can I check for that in the boot.log?
Well, thanks for your time, it's always great starting of in a forum with a cry for help.
I'm all new here, I hope this is a place where someone knows what to make of this:
So I had Fan Control 2.1 installed, worked fine, until I realized that it severely seem to affect my battery life. I deinstalled it, made an SMC reset and got the original fan behaviour back via starting smcfancontrol for one time. All good.
But still, for a 12 months old MBP a running time of roughly 3 hours is not enough, compared to my friends MBPs. So I started researching and ended up checking with Reggie SE the parameters of my CPU.
Maybe you can check there too, maybe it's nothing, but on my machine when I click on PLATFORM_ID Register 17 "Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology" is unticked, both on battery and hooked to power and more important, register 27 "Sample" is ticked. I read somewhere that means I don't have a production grade CPU. True?
I really would like to have a full functional MBP, be sure that SpeedStep is activated. Can I check for that in the boot.log?
Well, thanks for your time, it's always great starting of in a forum with a cry for help.