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AMD Cool'N'Quiet driver problem
Hi,
This is a system with an AMD Athlon 3500+ and I'd like toenable AMD Cool'N'QuietCPU power states. (to behave something like Intel's advanced speedstep, which automatically reduces CPU frequency when there isn't high load)
Here's what I tried:
- I updated the BIOS to the latest version.
- There's a BIOS Setting "Enable Cool 'N' Quiet" technology which might be related to this. I enabled it.
It boots up fine but nothing changed. Now the computer is unable to power off if CnQ is enabled.
It just hangs on the "Shutting down" screen (spinner is still spinning, it's not frozen, just hanging). I tried it several times, even left for 10 mins, no effect.
I had to reset the computer. If I disable CnQ, it can shut down correctly.
What should I do?
Here are the system specs:
Motherboard: ASUS M2V (latest BIOS)
RAM: 2 GB DDR2
HDD: 200 GB SATA
GPU: NVIDIA 7600GT
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3500+
UPDATE:
While on Windows XP this feature works fine by installing the CPU Driver but it does not work on Windows 7!
Last edited by ish4d0w; 06 May 2013 at 05:40.