Cool`n' Quiet function, Please help!, It is not working wh..

Hi,

I am having a problem with the Cool`n'Quiet function on this CPU! It is not
working when the laptop is running on battery but it works fine when running
on AC! On battery, the processor speed is always stuck on 1000 MHz according
to PowerNow! Dashboard Demo no matter what power scheme I am using, home,
portable, always on! On Ac it does function, when I am using the always on
scheme, the speed is always 2000 MHz and on portable the speed cycles
between 1000 and 2000 MHZ as it should! Is this by design, is the speed
supposed to stay on 1000MHz on battery? I hope not and I hope that you can
help me fix it! There is no way for me to play my game on battery, it is not
fast enough!

I called HP support twice about it and they are clueless, they have no idea
what the [content edited] I am talking about. They finally said that it is
working as it should but I don't think so! I bought a 2 GHz laptop and I'd
like to use the 2 GHz even on battery!

I downloaded the new driver, ruamdcpu.exe, it uninstalls my current driver
which is 1.2.2.0 then after reboot it uses windows driver and I had to run
the .exe again to install the new driver properly but the problem is it
still shows 1.2.2.0 under hardware profile! I guess there isn't a 1.2.2.2
but on AMD web site it states there is a new 1.2.2.2 driver!

Please advise and TIA.




HP Pavilion zv6000
AMD AthlonT 64 Processor 3200+
version x86 Family 15 Model 47 Stepping 2
current speed 990 MHz
cache size 512 KB

"M. Saddy" <00 DeleteThis @0000hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1MmdnUfc9KguLMHeRVn-gw@buckeye-express.com...
> Hi,
>
> I am having a problem with the Cool`n'Quiet function on this CPU! It is
> not working when the laptop is running on battery but it works fine when
> running on AC! On battery, the processor speed is always stuck on 1000 MHz
> according to PowerNow! Dashboard Demo no matter what power scheme I am
> using, home, portable, always on! On Ac it does function, when I am using
> the always on scheme, the speed is always 2000 MHz and on portable the
> speed cycles between 1000 and 2000 MHZ as it should! Is this by design, is
> the speed supposed to stay on 1000MHz on battery? I hope not and I hope
> that you can help me fix it! There is no way for me to play my game on
> battery, it is not fast enough!
>
> I called HP support twice about it and they are clueless, they have no
> idea what the [content edited] I am talking about. They finally said that
> it is working as it should but I don't think so! I bought a 2 GHz laptop
> and I'd like to use the 2 GHz even on battery!
>
> I downloaded the new driver, ruamdcpu.exe, it uninstalls my current driver
> which is 1.2.2.0 then after reboot it uses windows driver and I had to run
> the .exe again to install the new driver properly but the problem is it
> still shows 1.2.2.0 under hardware profile! I guess there isn't a 1.2.2.2
> but on AMD web site it states there is a new 1.2.2.2 driver!
>
> Please advise and TIA.
>
>
>
>

Most laptop manufacturers lock the processor at it's lowest speed when on
battery to conserve battery life. You used to be able to install the Win2k
PowerNow! (PowerNow! is the name used for cool 'n' quiet on mobile
processors) drivers in compatibility mode and make the CPU throttle when on
battery. That trick stopped working when done post-SP2 install. There is a
simple, free utility out ther eyou can se to fix the "problem" though.
Download RMClock and install it. It actually throttles much better than the
default throttling in XP anyway. It has many more steps, including half
multipliers if you enable it, and the threshold of throttle can be changed.