amd 3200 not stepping stuck 800 mhz

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.

Where do you see CPU Mhz?
On my system, the utility AMDClock.exe (from www.amd.com) always shows full speed, 2200 Mhz.
I haven't found a way to get it to throttle down.

"s t e w d o g" wrote in message

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.

You must adjust your power scheme.
Bobby

turn off "CPU throttling" in bios
turn off Cool-n-Quiet
manually set CPU multiplier to 10x insted of auto
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Yes, using AMDClock as well as system properties. Still reading 798Mhz. Again, the power plan is set to performance and plugged in. The power scheme is 'always on'. Not sure if this will help but here are my processor power states: Current power state: D0
Power capabilities: 00000009 PDCAP_D0_SUPPORTED PDCAP_D3_SUPPORTED
Power state mappings: S0 -> D0 S1 -> Unspecified S2 -> Unspecified S3 -> D3 S4 -> D3 S5 -> D3
"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.

Many thanks for everyone's help. I only wish it were that easy. This blankity bios pretty much lets you set a bios password and sort your boot priority. That's it :( I think Cool and quiet is history or at least integrated into Vista. I thought I read somewhere that AMD and MS developed the processor driver together so I don't even know if it exists. I couldn't install the ones available from amd.com. I'd like stepping especially since I'm not always playing a game. Dual booting with XP as well which works properly so not an option to manual set I'm afraid. I guess I should just wait. be patient and wait.
"hawkeyefan" wrote:

turn off "CPU throttling" in bios
turn off Cool-n-Quiet
manually set CPU multiplier to 10x insted of auto
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No suggestetions from me - stuck in the same boat :(
Also installed Vista alongside my XP and Linux on my Amilo A1630 (3200+); WindowsXP scaling works fine (800-2000MHz) Linux same Windows Vista stuck at 800MHz (High Performance powerplan) no matter the stress put at the CPU. (and that goes for both 32bit and 64bit Vista)
Any clues anyone?
TIA

Just a follow up on my issue. I think I've sorted my problem with Amilo A1630 w/ 3200+ and not getting past the 800 Mhz mark. I am not saying it is a fix but it has worked for me. I updated the Fujitsu/AMI BIOS to the reference Uniwill BIOS 1.05. I did not breathe the entire process but lo and behold, into Vista and we have performance! :) Went from a 1 rating to a whoppin' 3! (yes, I know....) I was previously using Fujitsu-Siemens BIOS 1.03c. Never needed to update it really. They have released a 1.04 and I should have tried that first but went to the Uniwill site and downloaded the 1.05 BIOS from http://www.uniwill.com/UserDownload/258KA0/258KA0.php because I hate Fujitsu.
A note to "I told you so'ers", there are STILL no useful options with these BIOS ROMs and there are still no settings within to enable Cool n Quiet or Turbo or whatever has to do with the proc. I reckon something sneaked it's way in.
Another word of warning. This flash caused all of my hardware to have to be reinstalled. XP spat me back out so tried Vista and it handled it all for me nicely. Oh, and these laptops do not come with legacy floppy drives but you can always boot to memory key and do the flash.
Hope this helps someone. Please remember though, I half expected the notebook to catch alight at anytime, that's how daring I felt. Don't do it if you don't mind waiting!
Oh and did I warn you not to do it?
I'm headed back into XP now, see if I can get working again. Checks and balances. He who dares. Good luck!
"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.