a couple of powernow-k8 questions

a couple of powernow-k8 questions

[Thomas Seifert]

Hi there,

I'm running an athlon64 3000+ on an epox-mainboard.

after some bios-upgrades through their support I'm getting at least a bit
of powernow-support ;)

Through startup I'm getting these messages now:

powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.00.09b)
powernow-k8:    0 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0x2 (1500 mV)
powernow-k8:    1 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x6 (1400 mV)
powernow-k8:    2 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x6 (1400 mV)
powernow-k8: cpu_init done, current fid 0xc, vid 0x2
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)


Just to confirm: does that mean only these modes are supported? 
Wasn't there something down to 800 MHz for the athlon64-processors?
Is this a problem of the mainbord (aka still their bios ;)) or of
the driver?
Any way to workaround this?




Thanks in advance,

Thomas

Re: a couple of powernow-k8 questions

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> I'm running an athlon64 3000+ on an epox-mainboard.
> 
> after some bios-upgrades through their support I'm getting at least a bit
> of powernow-support ;)
> 
> Through startup I'm getting these messages now:
> 
> powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.00.09b)
> powernow-k8:    0 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0x2 (1500 mV)
> powernow-k8:    1 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x6 (1400 mV)
> powernow-k8:    2 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x6 (1400 mV)
> powernow-k8: cpu_init done, current fid 0xc, vid 0x2
> ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
> 
> 
> Just to confirm: does that mean only these modes are supported? 
> Wasn't there something down to 800 MHz for the athlon64-processors?

I'd say bios problem. Only AMD people know for sure. 

> Is this a problem of the mainbord (aka still their bios ;)) or of
> the driver?
> Any way to workaround this?

Look into archives for methods how to override.

								Pavel
-- 
People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers...
...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl!

Re: a couple of powernow-k8 questions

[Thomas Seifert]

Hi Pavel,

thanks and its solved already.
I got a brand new bios (July 1st ;-)) from my mainboard-manufacturer
which solved the problem. 

My CPU is now running nicely at 32°C.


Regards,

Thomas

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 14:26:52 +0200
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> > I'm running an athlon64 3000+ on an epox-mainboard.
> > 
> > after some bios-upgrades through their support I'm getting at least a bit
> > of powernow-support ;)
> > 
> > Through startup I'm getting these messages now:
> > 
> > powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.00.09b)
> > powernow-k8:    0 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0x2 (1500 mV)
> > powernow-k8:    1 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x6 (1400 mV)
> > powernow-k8:    2 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x6 (1400 mV)
> > powernow-k8: cpu_init done, current fid 0xc, vid 0x2
> > ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
> > 
> > 
> > Just to confirm: does that mean only these modes are supported? 
> > Wasn't there something down to 800 MHz for the athlon64-processors?
> 
> I'd say bios problem. Only AMD people know for sure. 
> 
> > Is this a problem of the mainbord (aka still their bios ;)) or of
> > the driver?
> > Any way to workaround this?
> 
> Look into archives for methods how to override.
> 
> 								Pavel
> -- 
> People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers...
> ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl!