Cool n' Quiet in Windows Vista

[avi85]

Where can I find an amd driver for vista for my x2, or is there any other way to enable Cool n' Quiet without the driver?

 

[frostedflakes]

Vista should support it natively. In Control Panel select the Balanced scheme in the power settings.

 

[avi85]

Originally posted by: frostedflakes
Vista should support it natively. In Control Panel select the Balanced scheme in the power settings.

"Balanced" was selected already...

 

[avi85]

bump...

 

[avi85]

Originally posted by: avi85
bump...

anybody?

 

[SimMike2]

Originally posted by: frostedflakes
Vista should support it natively. In Control Panel select the Balanced scheme in the power settings.

I think this is correct. I don't think any drivers are needed.

 

[Bill Kunert]

I could never get it to work in any of the pre release versions of Vista I tried so it may not be supported in the released version either.

 

[cmrmrc]

http://www.theinq.com/default.aspx?article=38132

 

[oztrailrider]

I have had no joy getting C'n'Q to work with Vista either :|

 

[myocardia]

Here's all of the AMD drivers, in case you're interested: link.

 

[Billb2]

Don't know about your MOBO, but ASUS has released a beta BIOS that supports C&Q with Vista.

 

[zephyrprime]

It's built in.

 

[aka1nas]

I'm pretty sure you still have to enable it in the BIOS if you haven't already.

 

[avi85]

Originally posted by: aka1nas
I'm pretty sure you still have to enable it in the BIOS if you haven't already.

Of course I have.

 

[frostedflakes]

Try all the CnQ options in the BIOS. On my ASRock board I had CnQ set to auto but it did not work, I had to set it to enabled (I thought the same thing at first, that it was a setting or driver problem in Vista). Anyways you've probably already tried this, but just thought I'd throw that out there.

 

[indiekiduk]

Any update?

My work around is to use RightMark to contol the stepping but I'm still looking for a cpu fan control utility because the fan is going at full speed. I guess we need to wait for either a new bios for the K8NGM2-FID or some kind of patch from MS to fix the cool'n'quiet detection. Actually maybe there is a registry edit to force it on, anyone looked?

 

[indiekiduk]

Just tried SpeedFan and although its a total pain to configure it eventually works. How to set it up is explained here:
http://www.overclockers.com/articles1165/index02.asp