ECS nForce3 & Cool N Quiet Working?

[rahulbpatel]

I have an A64 3200+ installed in a ECS nForce3 MOBO and I am having problems w/ Cool N Quiet. I don't have an option in the BIOS for CnQ but if I install the AMD CPU Driver and set Power Options to Minimal Power Management then it seems as if Cool N Quiet is working. The problem is when I restart or shutdown. Windows XP Pro will shutdown but the system will not actually restart or shutdown, it will just sit there w/ a black screen. I can only shutdown or restart by physically pressing the power or restart button on my machine after that. If I set the Power Options to something other than Minimal Power Management then shutdown/restart works just fine but CnQ isn't enabled. Has anyone else experienced this? If you're able to get Cool N Quiet working on this MOBO can you outline the steps on how to do so? Thanks...

 

[furballi]

Reset your BIOS to default and retest.

 

[Peter]

XP uses CnQ only in "Laptop" and "Minimal Power Management" schemes, the latter being the recommended one for a desktop machine. This is normal.

Regarding the reboot problem: Did you install that copy on XP using this board, or did you migrate an existing installation?