Hi folks this is a long and boring story but please read it anyway because I really need help, I´m pretty much of a noob in this forum, but I’ve read a lot of info about the TLB erratum here so I think you can help me with the problem that I have. Well guys the thing is that I own a AMD Phenom 9600 Black Edition and a Abit AX78 mainboard using the Amd770 chipset. Since I bought this computer from a friend of mine I had problems, the first thing I’ve noticed was the high temperatures on the cpu and then the serious performance problems of the cpu in high stress situations like rendering (I work with 3ds max doing 3d animation and such). Well I could solve the temperature problem by changing the default cooler of the cpu by a thermaltake mini typhoon cooler, changing the ceramic thermal compound for a high density polysynthetic silver thermal compound (like artic silver 5) and updating the bios of my motherboard to the latest available because this fixed some voltage issues that caused a cpu overheat, with these three things done the temperature dropped down from 62 degrees Celsius on idle state to a fairly nice 33 degrees Celsius also on idle state. I was happy to have that problem solved but I still had the performance problems going on, so I made a little research on google and learned about the well known TLB erratum. Fortunately the latest bios installed on my motherboard comes with an option, that allows me to enable or disable the TLB cache whenever I want and get the performance improvement that I missed. The problem is that in windows XP x64 (which is my current O.S.) when I have the TLB cache enabled this causes BSOD’s , computer freezing and in general stability problems, but when the TLB cache is disabled the systems works well but with the well known performance loss. So I tried to leave the TLB cache disabled on the bios and then I’ve tried to apply the Phenom TLB Disable Tool which I found in xtremesystems.com (if you want to know what exactly this software do please enter the following link http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=180338 ) forums hoping that would give me back the missing cpu performance and with no stability problems what so ever, but obviously nothing happened because this only disables the TLB cache by software and it was already disabled by hardware (bios). So I tried again installing windows vista x64 and this time I enabled the TLB cache on the bios, then I made a couple of rendering tests (with cinebench r10 for x64) and still I had this lack of performance of the cpu, but happily with no BSOD and computer freezing at all, so that was a good start because that meant that there was something in the software disabling the TLB cache. In that moment I thought to apply the Phenom TLB Disable Tool again and…. Presto! It worked, finally I had the cpu at full speed and with no stability problems at all. After that, I restarted my system and again I made the cinebench render test, and again I found that the cpu was not at full speed, so again I applied the Phenom TLB Disable Tool and the processor was at full speed again. To solve the restart problem I created a Schechuled Task on my session’s log on that automatically applies the Phenom TLB Disable Tool and that way I have always my cpu running at full speed. I was happy with this solution until now, because there is some compatibility problems of some of the softwares that I use to work with windows vista x64, so now I´m forced to re-install windows XP x64 to make this softwares work, so the question is: ¿ How can I get my Phenom working at full speed with no stability issues on windows XP x64 permanently?
Again, I´m very sorry to tell all of you guys this long and boring story, but I had to tell how hard I’m trying to get this fixed.
Technical Info:
CPU-Z
If you need any other information about my platform just ask =)
Well guys, thanks in advance, any help is welcome and appreciated!
PS: Sorry about my writing and/or spelling errors, English is not my mother language.
Again, I´m very sorry to tell all of you guys this long and boring story, but I had to tell how hard I’m trying to get this fixed.
Technical Info:
CPU-Z
If you need any other information about my platform just ask =)
Well guys, thanks in advance, any help is welcome and appreciated!
PS: Sorry about my writing and/or spelling errors, English is not my mother language.
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