I installed the AMD drivers for winxp and at first it displays the right speed for my laptop, 1.6 .... but when i come back and restart it switches to 797 MHz ... i dont know why it does that, and i cant really **** with much in my bios, i havent updated it or anything its the standard hp bios ... if anyone knows wtf i gotta do ... oh and yea it says that its the amd 64 driver for some reason in add/remove :-/ ... Thanks
what the random, is it possible to disable this feature or work around it? oh and sometimes when i start xp, it displays it as 1.6ghz ... and sometimes its 797 ... and ocne it was 397 or something ... i dont get it, never did it before until now
actually, I don't have powernow installed... I think it mightve been a driver problem before ... is there any way to overclock these cpus?
Look under the power options in the control panel... should have the ability to disable there. If it is just power now, it should speed up when you hit load...
i fixed it, i think it was a driver problem, powernow isnt even installed... anyone know which bios i shold use or what i should use to OC this processor a bit ;o
nevermind i didnt fix it... i don't have a powernow tab anywhere in the power settings, im still using sp1 and this is a hp zv5220US ... id really like to get rid of this problem =(
i also figured out that my computer starts at a 4x multiplier and can be changed to 8 or something .. at 4x200 it runs at 800 thats why the 797 but at 8x200 its got the 1.6 its supposed to be. Anyway to have it on the 8 constantly?
yep im sure its probably some error within powernow or windows or something, due to the fact that i loaded a tool ... CG ... and i put the multiplier where its supposed to be: 8 ... and it went to 1600... but in windows system properties it stayed at 797 ... there has to be a fix for this ... Always on is my power setting ... so thats not it ... help anyone?
Hmm does it really matter? Since well when you doing heavy load for your cpu it wil be acting like a 3000+ anyways along with gaming
I'd say try removing it... Laptop should come with all the software it needs. And what model do have? XP-M or mobile 64?
does the same uninstalled, xp-m... and it bugs me alot because i look in system properties and it shows 797 mhz and its so annoying and when it changes it still doesnt show 1.6 gig so iunno .... and iunno about this powernow **** maybe its not installed or something its no where under the power options
I'd try running prime 95 and then see what it says... it may just go back up to full speed as soon as you do something.
i run intensive programs but it stays the same in system properties ... 797 :-/ ... but when i restart sometimes it shows 1.6 ... the problem is, it shows the start voltage as .95 and start multiplier as 4 ... i need to make start multiplier 8 and start voltage 1.4 ... just gotta find more stuff about this, lots on the amd official forums but still no SOLID answer ... and i know this sounds stupid, but im meticulous and pedantic, and ijust want everything to work the way its supposed to and show the right things ... little things bother me
So its a laptop, right? Just call the manufacturer's tech support... annoying, but usually gets the job done.
yea its a laptop but im sure the guys who work at hp are outsourced to india and not in the united states, and no tech will prob fix this one ... a solution would be online if anyone fixed it, many ppl have this problem on the AMD Mobile forums as well so iunnnnoz