AMD64 3200+ Uniwill258kA0 last try!!! - Page 2

That does sound troubling. I assume that is an Ibuypower system? Have you tried contacting them?

It sounds like the CPU is overheating and hence dropping speeds.... how hot is the exhaust fan?

What are you doing when it drops down? Are you using a program that is a resource hog or just surfing the web? When you play a newer game does it run slower than expected, because if not everything should be working ok. If you are checking it when there is no need for the cpu to be running all out then it won't show you the full 2gig.

Even with it set to Desktop/Home power setting it will still scale back to 800mhz because of PowerNow, but only when the full 2gig isn't needed. Portable/Laptop puts a speed cap on the cpu at 800mhz.

So if you are getting it to run at 2gig I'd say its working the way it should be, and only be worried if everything starts slowing down while running programs.

I agree with Rustican, don't download drivers unless you have to, but I downloaded all of the ones (that pertained to laptops) offered on the AMD website, including the CPUID/CPUZ. They should show the max it is capable of running and if it says about 2gigs then don't worry and enjoy the notebook.

I'm thinking that Sp2 might be causing this problem, because ever since I installed it, I have been having some throttleing issues as well, I might try reinstalling soon and trying then.

try reinstalling the drivers after to install SP2, I think it is replacing a file or something, mine was stuck at 800 Mhz regardless of what I did, then I uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled, and now it is working correctly

~Lyuokdea

I know how you feel Struzor. I think every tech for these companies should have this forum as a mandatory reading. But the way PowerNow works is not how you think. On Portable/Laptop it will not throttle up to 2gigs because the whole point is to save the battery life and at 2gigs it won't last long at all, not that it does at 800mhz. PowerNow is dynamic and throttles the cpu as needed, ie its supposed to run at 2.0gigs for a 3200+ when needed like for playing Doom3, but as soon as you no longer need it the cpu throttles down accordingly. It should not throttle down while playing though.

I only have Far Cry loaded for right now and I can tell you the cpu stays at 2.2gigs (3400+) but as soon as I exit out of it PowerNow slows down to less. If I tried playing Far Cry on my G3 set to Portable/Laptop I would be lucky to get 10-20fps. I can't say what it is like playing Doom3 though because I don't have it, but maybe it is slowing down and the cpu is still running at 2gigs, it is the most intensive game out there right now.

As a test you can see the difference in speed between the Home/Desktop and Battery/Laptop setting in just by opening the show hidden icons arrow on the taskbar. I know this sounds stupid but there is a deffinite speed difference when it slides open to show all of the icons. Test it out you'll see.

If it is still throttling down while you are playing then send it back. ABS prices have gone down and they are starting to offer the 3700+ as well, which I wish I could have waited for. I haven't seen the uniwill with the PC2700 so I can't comment on performance differences between the two, I just know mine is fast as hell and I am very happy with it, as you should be.

If you go over and look at the AMD forums you'll see that dozens of people have the same issue with their e-machines - once the processor drops to 800Mhz it doesn't go back up again. I'm not sure what the status of all that is currently but I believe it ended up being somethingto do with PowerNow drivers for XP, though it would pay to check the site - http://forums.amd.com Mobile Forum.

I didn't go through each of the posted links two comments back but found the following: http://www.whatlaptop.co.uk/topic.as...67&whichpage=2

Supposedly half way down that thread is a solution. I don't have mine yet so can't test or confirm.

i am in the same pile of **** as Struzor there.....looking for a fix.

The point of all those threads wasn't to give you a fix, but to point out that it's an issue with the CPU, not with whatever mahcine you happen to be running. Try thinking about this logically for a second & realise that there's every chance that a GamePC or ABS machine will have exactly the same problem - and if it doesn't, it's certainly not any hardware difference - so maybe start by downloading ABS or GamePC's bios and/or drivers & see whether you can make any progress.

I had the exact problem you are referring to, but I solved it easily. First I downloaded the CPUID software from AMD and the AMD 64 XP Drivers. Then I went to device manager-processors- and uninstalled drivers. When it asked me to restart I said no both times, and then installed the AMD 64 drivers I had downloaded. I rebooted and when i got into XP I ran the PowerNow dashboard, and it seemed the same, until I ran a game, and it quickly moved to 100%. If you run CPUID it'll go to 100% as well. I seriously doubt this is a processor problem at all, this is simply a screwed up Windows XP driver. Hope this helps. My laptop specs are:
Batallion 101-S AMD 64 3200+, 1 GB Kingston DDR RAM, 60 GB 7200 RPM HD, 128 MB Ati Radeon 9700 Pro, DVD/RW drive, Intel Pro Wireless 802.11 a/b/g
Running Windows XP Professional- Service Pack 2