AMD Cool and Quiet Driver

Just added in MSI
The link is for the Kn8 NEO2 but is good for any mombo
Link http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/download/dld/spt_dld_detail.php?UID=607&kind=1
Support model The MB which is base on AMD Athlon™ 64/Sempron™/Turion™ 64/Opteron™ processor.
Description
• AMD Athlon™ 64/Sempron™/Turion™ 64/Opteron™ systems with ACPI 2.0 processor performance control objects
• WinXP WHQL pass
• Driver Version:
- XP 1.2.2.0
- 98/ME/2K 1.0.1.7
• Windows XP 64-Bit Edition or Windows Server 2003 64-Bit Edition

It appears that this was added to MSI today. I had already installed the AMD 64 driver 1.2.2.0 (even though it appears as 1.2.2.1 at AMD) over a week ago, but C'n'Q never worked with it with my 3200+ Venice chip.
I did get C'n'Q to work with both 1.9b5 and 1.9b6 beta BIOS's but went back to 1.8 (official) for my peace of mind. Is this driver different to the one at AMD? Modified in anyway?
I would really like to get C'n'Q to work with approved drivers and not betas.
Cheers
DBM

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Hello
I have a problem with the Cool and Quiet feature on the K8N Neo2 Platinum (v1.3 bios).
As soon and I boot the Core Center v1.7.0.0 will instantly overclock my A64 3500+ CPU to 3000+ Mhz. Of course this reboots my PC.
I have Cool and Quiet enabled in the bios, Automatic overclocking disabled in the bios and the Core Center softwares overclocking is (well it was) disabled? How can I install it or get it to stop overclocking the system.
I want to run the Core Center to enable the Cool and Quiet fan controlling stuff.
Thanks

Strange that Corecenter would overclock your cpu to 3ghz. It's known to be unreliable software, but not that unreliable.
Are you running a stock 3500+, or are you overclocking the HTT/FSB beyond 200?
Previous posted was right about cool and quiet software. You don't need corecenter to run it. Just stay away from corecenter and even uninstall it
Cool and quiet software (a device driver that you download from AMD, or that comes pre-installed with XP SP2) simply works as follows. It introduces the notion of several p-states (processor states) that it switches between based on its reading of cpu load. A p-state is a pairing of cpu voltage and cpu multiplier. On my 3200+ newcastle, the p-states are:
1.5V, 11x
1.4V, 10x
1.3V, 9x
1.1V, 5x
Your 3500+ might be similar. Anyway, just run cpu-z instead of corecenter to watch your cpu speed changing on the fly.
As far as fan speeds go: the cool and quiet driver doesn't affect fan speeds. That means to get the "quiet" part of "cool and quiet" you need either
(a) a fan that has a temperature sensor and which automatically changes its speed based on that, or
(b) just use the motherboard BIOS setting to do the same via bios software.
(c) use speedfan to do the same via windows software.
I myself prefer (b) but it depends on the bios accurately reporting temperature, which can vary wildly between bios releases (e.g. newcastles didn't start getting accurate temp reports until bios 1.4).

COOL N QUIET DRIVER FOR XP PLEASE HELP

I have via k8m800/k8t800 Pro + 8237 Chiipset board. I have enabled Cool and Quiet in BIOS. How do I install the driver in WIN XP? I have the one that comes along with a CD but there is no intaller. Please help because I'm pretty new to all this hardware stuff

Thanks, I've downloaded and installed it but there's no graphical interface, it only unzipped the .sys and .cat files into a folder in my program files. I have also enabled cool an quiet from my BIOS. I'm pretty lost at this moment, For example...there is a setup file for the other OS's but not for XP for the cool and quiet driver in my CD. So how do I install the .sys and .cat files on my OS

Crackling Issues with AMD Cool'n'Quiet and Intel SpeedS

After enabling AMD Cool'n'Quiet on my Vista 64 computer ([url="http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&message.id=2093">see this thread[/url]), I noticed that I had crackling in my audio from my Creative X-Fi. I put my Minimum Processor State back to 00%, and the crackling is gone. With both Minimum and Maximum Processor State on 00%, I have no crackling issues. I haven't tested Intel SpeedStep, but I would imagine that will also cause this problem. Can anyone verify this?Message Edited by dypsis on 03-25-200706:32 PM

I am running MSI K8N Neo Platinum/SLI 64FX? with 4gbram?I have never really used the cool n quiet utility becasue it always seemed to make the motherboard fans whine somewhat, for this purpose I enabled and disabled cool n quiet several times, and I honestly didnt hear any difference in sound, albeit the fan whinning was there. I dont know if this is conected or not, its possible cool N quiet creates other noise as well. I never did like the util. But, it might stand to reason that if the utility was creating voltage or signal variations it could cause the rice krispies syndrome so many people have been talking about. Have to get some more feedback on this issue.

AMD cool n quiet

Can I get some BIOS with AMD Cool n Quiet option enabled?
I get irritate when my A8 5550m cant get higher than 2.1GHz when the CPU can handle even 3.1GHz. I can fix this with restarting only, and it get back to 2.1GHz when I power on my laptop
G405s-7577 users. Thanks.
nb. Sorry for my bad english

64 bit I hope. Go into the device manager and look for the processor. Right click on the processor and choose properties then driver, then driver details. It should say amd processor rather than generic processor. The driver name should have amd in it (amdk8.sys) and not just processor.sys or something generic. For mobile processors the correct name is PowerNow! not Cool 'n Quiet although I cannot recall if the zv5000z actually uses a mobile processor or a desktop processor. I believe it is mobile.

Cool and Quiet on K8T Neo2-F V2.0

I have been playing a bit with a K8T Neo2-F V2.0 (s939) and a Winchester 3200+.
There seem to be a problem with the CPU fan control while using Cool and Quiet.
BIOS is v3.6, os WINXP SP3, latest AMD proc driver installed.
CnQ enabled in BIOS, Minimal power management in power options.
The C'nQ itself works fine, but the fan blowing full blast 3300rpm all times.
Is this a known problem? CnQ work fine in kubuntu 64-bit as well but no fan slowdown.
Corecenter does not support this board.
Tried speedfan, but on a brief test could not get it control the fan, unless I did something wrong.

This board has no option for Smartfan in BIOS.
From the manual, whatever it means for this board(seem like its just copied from a more feature rich board manual):
"If the mainboard has a System Hardware
Monitor chipset on-board, you must use a specially designed fan with speed sensor to take
advantage of the CPU fan control."
Currently using the stock HS& fan. Need to find a working solution for fan control.

K8N NEO2 cool and quiet problem

I noticed that when I enable cool and quiet, my CPU clock gets stuck at 1 GHz (5x multi), it will not go full speed even at max load. Does anyone have any ideas?

Default xp installation use processr.sys Microsoft signed as cpu driver .
With AMD installed cpu driver it updates to amdk8.sys Advanced Micro Devices signed .
As for why the driver states version 1.1.0.0 i wonder myself .
Think that the changes are in the inf/cat/installshield file ,thats what i think when looking at the revision history.
Edit:
It is the file cpudriver.EXE which is 1.1.0.14 revision
(http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/utilities/cpudriver.EXE)
The amdk8.sys file is still at version 1.1.0.0 .
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Version 1.1.0.14 – 5/11/04
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Cool and Quiet Not Working

Just re-formatted my hard drive and re-installed everything. Cool and Quiet is enabled in BIOS and AMD drivers are installed. However, according to CoreCenter, the CPU and fan speeds never change. The CPU constantly reads 2.2Ghz. On my previous installation everything worked without a problem and the CPU used to drop to about 800Mhz. Cool and Quiet is enabled in Corecenter.
Does anyone please have any idea what the problem could be.
Thankyou.

I don't know about fan speeds, Core Center isn't supported on the RS480, so I use PC Alerts 4 utility from MSI. But to check if the CPU is in the low power state, I just go to Control Panel and System then it tells you what your CPU speed is. Alternatively, you can right-click on My Computer and go to Properties, that pulls up the same window.
-jonatj

How to disable Cool N Quiet driver when it isnt in the bios or registry for Roxio game capture?

1. HP G60-120 US Notebook PC
2. Windows 7 32-bit
3. No error messages
4. No changes before issue occured.
I was told by Roxio (company of the capture card I bought to record gameplay on my Xbox) to call HP and get my Cool N Quiet driver disabled after I updated my other drivers and still had problems with my capture card. Can somebody tell me where to find it other than in the registry and bios because it is NOT in there and I have looked already more than 5 times or if you know where I can get it remotely disabled. HP cannot remotely disable it because I just talked to them and they don't have the power to do that.

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Originally posted by kensterman
Does Cool n' Quiet need any software for it to work, or does the CPU/Fan slow down automatically? I notice that I have to use MSI's Core Center to activiate Cool n' Quiet. Anyone??
No, Corecenter is almost useless and is NOT needed to "activate" Cool n Quiet. The best it can do is tell you fan speed and temps, and even that is questionable. It will also tell you clock speed but you can get that from right clicking "My Computer" choose Properties, go to General tab, note mhz displayed there. If it is about half of full clock speed for your CPU, then CnQ is working right. If it shows full clock speed, then CoolnQuiet is NOT working and you need to re-read Mr. Woo's original post which gives details about how to enable it.
Next, about fan speed. You have to understand that CnQ does not have anything to do with fan speed directly. Unless you have fan speed control disabled in BIOS, then your fan is going to control as you described whether you have CnQ enabled or not. In BIOS, in the H/W Monitor section, there is a place to enable or disable fan speed control - it's called CPU Smart Temperature Monitor or something like that.
As long as it is enabled and your fan is compatible and hooked up right, the fan will ramp up and down to control temperature. This is independent of CnQ. And it is independent of Corecenter. Disable CnQ and shutdown CoreCenter, the mobo still controls fan speed.

Crackling! When AMD Cool'n'Quiet is enab

I was wondering why that is, recently because summer, I have enabled AMD Cool'n'Quiet option, when I switch it on, the X-Fi (Elite Pro) begins to crackle. I turn it off, it becomes flawless once again.
I'm on nForce 4 chipset (A8N32-SLI)

I am running MSI K8N Neo Platinum/SLI 64FX? with 4gbram?I have never really used the cool n quiet utility becasue it always seemed to make the motherboard fans whine somewhat, for this purpose I enabled and disabled cool n quiet several times, and I honestly didnt hear any difference in sound, albeit the fan whinning was there. I dont know if this is conected or not, its possible cool N quiet creates other noise as well. I never did like the util. But, it might stand to reason that if the utility was creating voltage or signal variations it could cause the rice krispies syndrome so many people have been talking about. Have to get some more feedback on this issue.

Cool and Quiet question

Does cool and quiet reduce the fan speeds of all the fans plugged into the mobo or just the CPU fan?

CoreCenter's Cool'n'Quiet only adjusts CPU fan speed while AMD's Cool'n'Quiet adjusts CPU speed. Here's a link to AMD's guide

Cool and Quiet ok to use on NF980-G65 / 965 CPU?

Hi,
I'm wondering if it's safe to use the cool and quiet option in the bios on the NF980-G65 motherboard with the AMD 965 Black Edition CPU.
I had the MSI overclocking center open (I'm not overclocking just monitoring the temperatures) and heard this faint siren sound, thought it was one of my neighbors car alarms. Once I discovered that it was coming from my computer I opened HWMonitor and noted that the CPU fan was only running at 3%, and I guess that's lower than what ever is configured in the MSI Overclocking center since the alarm noise was coming from the overclocking center.
The CPU was still in the safe zone at about 54°c at the time that the CPU fan was down running at 3%, my guess was due to cool and quiet taking over maybe.
I've read that this CPU can go pretty high in temps but of course we should try to keep it as cool as possible so this leaves me baffled about the cool and quiet (if that's what causes it) to drop the CPU fan down to about 1680RPM since the temps seem like they would have kept rising if the fan doesn't speed up.
Anyway, is it safe to use Cool and Quiet on this mainboard with this CPU?

Unfortunately, I live in a 40+ year old house, in the desert, where our now summer month temps are into the 3 digit marks (100-121°f) and this house doesn't have insulation in the walls so the temps inside are only maintained at 76°f and the computer room is a bit hotter than that even with the central air going and an additional window a/c unit in the computer room.
I am using the Thermaltake Element G box which has a huge fan on the side door, a very large fan on the front, an equally large fan to exhaust on the back, an large fan again on the top of the case and finally, 2 60mm fans on the back to exhaust near the video cards and so my CPU runs probably warmer than the average person that is able to keep their rooms down to 65°f unfortunately.
Anyway, the cool and quiet used to be turned off and I had the other options on so that it would try to maintain the CPU at 45°c which it's perfectly capable of doing when I'm not playing games, and of course it's still capable fo keeping it under 60°c when playing games, and most of the time the temps dont' get above 57°c when playing demanding games but it concerns me that the CPU fan would drop to only 3% using cool and quiet and I'll likely turn it off again but I'm still curious if there is any known issues with running cool and quiet on this mainboard and CPU.
Thanks for the reply

Lockups caused by Cool and Quiet?

Since a few months, I have a MSI K8T Neo2 FIR motherboard with an Athlon64 3200+ (Venice) CPU, equipped with 2x512 Mb dual channel memory. No overclocking or any non-standard BIOS-settings; BIOS version 9.1. The system works great, but for one thing: I had frequent lockups...
After some time, I started noticing that my lockups occurred only when the system (running Gentoo Linux) was not doing very much (idle, or only doing some browsing with Firefox). Because of that, I started suspecting that my Cool and Quiet-setup had something to do with it: the lockups occurred when my system was running at 1000 MHz, never when running at 2000 MHz. Since I turned off Cool and Quiet (in the Linux kernel, I didn't touch the BIOS-settings) a week ago, I haven't had a single lockup, even though I've kept my computer running 24 hours a day mostly. So I guess my guess was right.
Can anyone explain what exactly is happening? Why is my system less stable when in 1000 MHz than in 2000 MHz? Can I do something to make the 1000 MHz-mode stable and return to running Cool and Quiet?

hi,
i have the same problem with the same chipset. (even if its another mb)
your post has been a big hint because after my lockups occured i tried to reproduce them with system/cpu torture tests but have not been succsessful. after that i declared that my system has been miraculously cured and went back to normal (i.e. mostly idle) usage and. bang, lockups again. so i disabled cool'n quiet for now and will see if that helps.
raoulst

Question vis Cool and Quiet

OK.
Software installed
Cool and quiet enabled in Bios before download and installation
Minimal Power Management selected in the Power options
With all that done, surely the System reading should show a slightly lower Clock Speed.
Currently it's on 2.2 GHZ.
Have I missed soemthing in Bios??
Stop Press, Edit: Ignore my ramblings Richard
After a while the gizmo senses the lesser demand for power and adjusts accordingly
Sit back, and drink those beers

you might need a new bios update. I did for my venice and my k8neo4 sli plat

AMD Cool 'n Quiet (powernow-k8 module)

Hi,
Im having a little problem on getting CnQ to work, here is whats going on>
[root@archcrow crow]# modprobe powernow_k8
FATAL: Error inserting powernow_k8 (/lib/modules/2.6.10-ARCH/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.ko): No such device
[root@archcrow crow]#
Im using the stock arch scsi kernel26.
Im missing something here? or the stock kernel has a problem with cool and quiet?
Just in case: I do have an Athlon64 and a motherboard supporting the feature, also its activated in the BIOS

Hi,
This were my modules before doing anything:
[root@archcrow crow]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
eth1394 21640 0
uhci_hcd 34576 0
parport_pc 28996 0
parport 38600 1 parport_pc
irtty_sir 7424 0
sir_dev 18492 1 irtty_sir
irda 144188 1 sir_dev
crc_ccitt 2432 1 irda
pcspkr 4044 0
ohci1394 35716 0
ieee1394 111416 2 eth1394,ohci1394
nvidia 3465660 12
pci_hotplug 34748 0
joydev 10560 0
usbhid 45824 0
snd_intel8x0 34336 1
snd_ac97_codec 78176 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 56612 0
snd_mixer_oss 21120 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 101252 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 27140 1 snd_pcm
snd 59108 6 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 10848 2 snd
snd_page_alloc 10244 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
forcedeth 18560 0
ehci_hcd 35332 0
ohci_hcd 23560 0
usbcore 125560 5 uhci_hcd,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
tsdev 8128 0
evdev 9984 0
rtc 13128 0
nls_cp437 6144 2
vfat 14976 2
fat 42912 1 vfat
I could load the "freq_table" module, but the "acpi_cpufreq" answered with the following error:
[root@archcrow crow]# modprobe acpi_cpufreq
FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq (/lib/modules/2.6.10-ARCH/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko): No such device
Its the same as powernow-k8.
Dont understand whats wrong with this:
Yes the CnQ is enabled in BIOS, and YES, ACPI is also enabled (also tryed disabling it).

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