Cool n Quiet not working on Athlon64 3700! help

[sik1977]

Specifications:

AMD Athlon64 3700+ (San Diego Core), Stock (Boxed) Fan
MSI K8N NEO4 Platinum Motherboard (Socket 939, nForce4 Ultra Chipset) - BIOS V. 1.3
JSP-Tech EZCOOL 550W Power Supply
Asus 7800GTX Graphics Card

ISSUE:

I have installed the AMD Athlon64 drivers after installing windowsXP SP2. The system is running fine, however, the cool n quiet function does seem to work as the processor continues to work on 2.2GHZ and does not clock down no matter what power/energy sceme i set under windows (Portable/Laptop, Max Battery, Home/Office etc.). I have reinstalled the Cool n Quiet/processor driver twice, both from the MSI site and from AMD site. But cool n quiet is still not working. I have checked and made sure that cool n quiet is enabled in the motherboard BIOS. Am I missing some other setting or driver. I have installed all the other drivers from the motherboard CD and the system is running stable and just fine. The only thing which is troubling me is the cool n quiet which isn't working. Please help.

Thank you.

Sikandar Khan

 

[o1die]

Probably caused by the bios version. I would check msi's website for any bios updates and what fixes they address. But flashing the bios is a little risky. In my view, not worth the risk of getting a dead board just to fix cool and quiet, assuming everything else works.

 

[pat]

In power management, in setting, you have to set the computer to minimal power usage instead of desktop PC.

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[sik1977]

Thank you everyone for the help.

I installed the latest BIOS (V1.9) and the Cool n Quiet is working fine now. It seems the old BIOS didn't support the latest core (San Diego).