I think I just managed to trigger this without suspending etc.
I cold-booting, had the full spectrum of frequencies, decided to run the tpfancontrol script (which overrides the inbuilt fan control logic) and the cpufreq spectrum got locked between 1Ghz and 1Ghz:
current policy: frequency should be within 1000 MHz and 1000 MHz.
I think I just managed to trigger this without suspending etc.
I cold-booting, had the full spectrum of frequencies, decided to run the tpfancontrol script (which overrides the inbuilt fan control logic) and the cpufreq spectrum got locked between 1Ghz and 1Ghz:
current policy: frequency should be within 1000 MHz and 1000 MHz.
Running cpufreq-set doesn't change anything.