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Former Member
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I have a AMD based laptop that throttles and only turns up the speed when extra is needed. I had to format the laptop recently. Before I did the grid agent would use the 800mhz available without increasing the clock speed, due to low priority I assume. After the format it runs at full speed all the time, causing things to heat up alot and use more power and such. I would like it to run at 800 like it did before without cool n quiet bumping up the voltage and speed. I played around with the power management settings and cant seem to make run at the lower speed like it used to. Anyone have some advice on how to change the priority on grid agent or set cool n quiet to only run the CPU at the lower setting??
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Former Member
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Hello kief75,
You should give us the specifics: manufacturer and model of your laptop. Perhaps some member will know something about it. mycrofth |
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Former Member
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Its a compaq r4000 with sempron 3000+, ati 128 meg r200 chipset. It is flashed to the latest bios with the latest cpu driver from amd. Normally it runs at 1.1v 1Ghz mid 30s temp, but hops upto 1.4v 1.8Ghz low 50s with nothing else running (although this does yield a nice cpu score =)
When I first got the machine the first thing I did after power on was format the drive and reinstall windows. That was last month and I had reason to format again, so its the same setup, no factory software was it ever. |
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Former Member
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You say you flashed the bios?
Have you checked that cool n quiet is enabled in bios? |
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Former Member
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You say you flashed the bios? Have you checked that cool n quiet is enabled in bios? I have the AMD dashboard installed. When I pause or close the grid agent it does kick back to 1.1V and 1Ghz as mentioned in the last post. |
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Former Member
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Hello kief75,
It sounds to me as though your laptop used to stick to slow operation, but no longer does. There is probably some way to force this behavior. Perhaps you should use Google to search for a public bulletin board offering tech support for Compaq laptop users. Someone might know of a freeware utility that lets you control this manually. I do not think that any of the members frequenting this board have any useful suggestions for you. But Google is a great way to find tech groups on any computer topic. mycrofth |
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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If you cannot find another way to cool it down, take a look here.
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Former Member
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I will check into the throttle solution, although not very elegant it may help. On a side note for anyone else that wants to give answering this question a stab I checked and the CPU score says its a 1GHZ processor even though its running constantly at 1.8GHZ.....
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