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Help with an Opteron based 7700 with vista 32

post #1 of 6
5/5/08 at 12:13am
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I recently rebuilt my old 7700 to a new d900k board with an opteron 180. runs awesome, nice and cool (esp. compared to the P4 I pulled out) but power management dont work, says it is on battery all the time. it charges fine, and if I pull the power cord it dims the screen and everything.. I put the old athlon 64 3000 out of our spare machine and power management works. The opteron has full acpi support so whats up? I did a reinstall of all the acpi drivers. anyone else having this issue?
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post #2 of 6
9/4/08 at 3:08pm

Clevo D900K with opteron 180 power/battery problem

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Originally Posted by Black-wolf View Post
I recently rebuilt my old 7700 to a new d900k board with an opteron 180. runs awesome, nice and cool (esp. compared to the P4 I pulled out) but power management dont work, says it is on battery all the time. it charges fine, and if I pull the power cord it dims the screen and everything.. I put the old athlon 64 3000 out of our spare machine and power management works. The opteron has full acpi support so whats up? I did a reinstall of all the acpi drivers. anyone else having this issue?
I have the same problem w Opteron 180 in D900k, what sucks even more is that the system power settings for being on battery are all the systyem uses for power management with this condition.

Somebody here has to have some sort of an idea as to what fixeth this.

I've tried Vista32 ult and XP pro (32). same thing.........

Thanks much if anybody actually responds to this,
and yes, I have the latest bios (09). That I know of......
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post #3 of 6
9/4/08 at 3:21pm
I've never had a 7700 but try this:
Toggle ACPI on/off in the BIOS and reboot. Any difference?
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post #4 of 6
9/4/08 at 7:57pm
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I've never had a 7700 but try this:
Toggle ACPI on/off in the BIOS and reboot. Any difference?

Amazingly enough, it's not a selectable option in the AMD (D9K) version bios. I can't remember if it was in the intel version (D9T). I also don't remember having this problem w/the intel chipset either(D9T).

I think that's the right track though ( ACPI-Compliant System issue), but I don't know what to do about it........

Is the system bad (hardware) or not set right (software)????..........
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post #5 of 6
9/5/08 at 2:53pm
I don't know anything about this issue, but my m9700 processor has a cpu driver that controls "cool n' quiet". Is there an AMD cpu driver for the opteron, and have you installed it?

I'd check AMD's website, and make sure you've got all the AMD cpu and chipset drivers.

I don't know that AW ever sold this platform with the opteron, might be because the bios doesn't support these features.
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post #6 of 6
9/6/08 at 12:23am

D900K with opteron 180

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Originally Posted by Hammerhead View Post
I don't know anything about this issue, but my m9700 processor has a cpu driver that controls "cool n' quiet". Is there an AMD cpu driver for the opteron, and have you installed it?

I'd check AMD's website, and make sure you've got all the AMD cpu and chipset drivers.

I don't know that AW ever sold this platform with the opteron, might be because the bios doesn't support these features.
The unit works great, it's got AMD drivers and Xp sp3 on it now, but you still have to pull the battery to let software install's see that it's on AC power. With a battery installed and the unit charging it will show on AC and charging. Once charged, it shows on battery @ 100 percent but not plugged in. This won't allow alot of software installs. This also only allows power settings on the battery settings only.

Gotta wonder, what possible silly little thing is keeping this from working correctly,.......
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