CPU slow using xp but not 2000?

From: Larry Asher (larry_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:25:19 GMT

Greetings and thanks in advance for any insights.

I have a notebook (Fujitsu Lifebook Model C-6557 650Mhz P3 128MB RAM)
that is currently dual booting XP Pro SP2 and 2000 Pro.

I have been running it exclusively under XP and noticed that it has been
  getting extremely sluggish so I ran some diagnostics. Using
FreshDiagnostic I ran tests on the CPU and the CPU speed came back as
180 Mhz! I booted into Win 2000 and ran the same test and it came back
as 647 Mhz (chip is a 650).

I've checked all the settings I can think of including the bios (even
though it seems fine under 2000 so it shouldn't be the bios).

I really can't think of what to do next. Any suggestions on what may be
causing this or what I should be checking would be greatly appreciated.

Again, thanks in advance!
Larry

PS I know I need to replace this dinosaur with a new notebook but it is
not in the budget right now. Also, until the slowdown it was still
meeting my needs and this doesn't seem to be a hardware issue.

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