Underclocked
 

After reformating my computer, I've noticed my computer is a tad slower than expected. So, I check with CPU-Z and I'm running at 1 GHz, instead of 2 GHz. It seems my CPU is underclocked for some unknown reason. Any ideas?

EDIT: I Prime95 to see if it would ramp up, but it's still acting like a 1 GHz processor.

Press the "Turbo" button. :tpg:

Have you tried messing with the BIOS?

Any chance you had a software overclocking going on prior to reformatting?

Disable speedstep or on gigabyte boards, c1e/eist (intel cpus).
Go into the bios and make sure the fsb/multiplier are correct.

Don't see why a simple reformat would affect it though.

I applied a BIOS update, toggled speedstep on/off and everything seems to back in order. Thanks.