AMD 3200+ not stepping
 

Hello,
Hope you can help. I've installed beta 2 on an AMILO A1630 (sadistic, I know).
Everything looks fine except the performance when plugged into the mains
power.
I'd expect it to be throttling during 3d intensive use, with power settings
set to performance (plugged in) where juice is not an issue.
I can here the fans kicking into high gear but performance and real time
monitoring confirms it to stay at 798. Since this is minimum spec for Vista,
it would be nice to hover above 800mhz especially when my cpu is capable of
2ghz. I don't mind running a little hot, it does anyway.
Things I've done so far:
- installed latest Vista beta drivers from ATI (no change either with or
without so not the culprit)
- removed CPU driver, ACPI battery and controller drivers from device
manager, nada.
- tried installing cool and quiet from AMD, no joy, wrong OS. Same with 64
bit driver for XP.

In XP it was quickly on demand when I needed the power. I can't get it to
budge now. I'm not at home atm but I seem to remember seeing one of the
frequency steps was 'not defined'.
Any ideas are appreciated (except for upgrading the bios- Fujitsu-Siemens
abandoned us 2 years ago).
Thank you.

Re: AMD 3200+ not stepping
 

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s t e w d o g wrote:
> Hello,
> Hope you can help. I've installed beta 2 on an AMILO A1630 (sadistic, I know).
> Everything looks fine except the performance when plugged into the mains
> power.
> I'd expect it to be throttling during 3d intensive use, with power settings
> set to performance (plugged in) where juice is not an issue.
> I can here the fans kicking into high gear but performance and real time
> monitoring confirms it to stay at 798. Since this is minimum spec for Vista,
> it would be nice to hover above 800mhz especially when my cpu is capable of
> 2ghz. I don't mind running a little hot, it does anyway.
> Things I've done so far:
> - installed latest Vista beta drivers from ATI (no change either with or
> without so not the culprit)
> - removed CPU driver, ACPI battery and controller drivers from device
> manager, nada.
> - tried installing cool and quiet from AMD, no joy, wrong OS. Same with 64
> bit driver for XP.
>
> In XP it was quickly on demand when I needed the power. I can't get it to
> budge now. I'm not at home atm but I seem to remember seeing one of the
> frequency steps was 'not defined'.
> Any ideas are appreciated (except for upgrading the bios- Fujitsu-Siemens
> abandoned us 2 years ago).
> Thank you.

RE: AMD 3200+ not stepping
 

sorry for repeat post, interface said it was not submitted but it lied.

"s t e w d o g" wrote:

> Hello,
> Hope you can help. I've installed beta 2 on an AMILO A1630 (sadistic, I know).
> Everything looks fine except the performance when plugged into the mains
> power.
> I'd expect it to be throttling during 3d intensive use, with power settings
> set to performance (plugged in) where juice is not an issue.
> I can here the fans kicking into high gear but performance and real time
> monitoring confirms it to stay at 798. Since this is minimum spec for Vista,
> it would be nice to hover above 800mhz especially when my cpu is capable of
> 2ghz. I don't mind running a little hot, it does anyway.
> Things I've done so far:
> - installed latest Vista beta drivers from ATI (no change either with or
> without so not the culprit)
> - removed CPU driver, ACPI battery and controller drivers from device
> manager, nada.
> - tried installing cool and quiet from AMD, no joy, wrong OS. Same with 64
> bit driver for XP.
>
> In XP it was quickly on demand when I needed the power. I can't get it to
> budge now. I'm not at home atm but I seem to remember seeing one of the
> frequency steps was 'not defined'.
> Any ideas are appreciated (except for upgrading the bios- Fujitsu-Siemens
> abandoned us 2 years ago).
> Thank you.

RE: AMD 3200+ not stepping
 

sorry for repeat post, interface said it was not submitted but it lied.


"s t e w d o g" wrote:

> Hello,
> Hope you can help. I've installed beta 2 on an AMILO A1630 (sadistic, I know).
> Everything looks fine except the performance when plugged into the mains
> power.
> I'd expect it to be throttling during 3d intensive use, with power settings
> set to performance (plugged in) where juice is not an issue.
> I can here the fans kicking into high gear but performance and real time
> monitoring confirms it to stay at 798. Since this is minimum spec for Vista,
> it would be nice to hover above 800mhz especially when my cpu is capable of
> 2ghz. I don't mind running a little hot, it does anyway.
> Things I've done so far:
> - installed latest Vista beta drivers from ATI (no change either with or
> without so not the culprit)
> - removed CPU driver, ACPI battery and controller drivers from device
> manager, nada.
> - tried installing cool and quiet from AMD, no joy, wrong OS. Same with 64
> bit driver for XP.
>
> In XP it was quickly on demand when I needed the power. I can't get it to
> budge now. I'm not at home atm but I seem to remember seeing one of the
> frequency steps was 'not defined'.
> Any ideas are appreciated (except for upgrading the bios- Fujitsu-Siemens
> abandoned us 2 years ago).
> Thank you.