Cool 'n Quiet crashes down WinXP

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Danijel

With the coming of warmer days I decided to turn on Cool 'n Quiet on my
sistem (mobo is k8n-e deluxe, Athlon 64 3000+, 1 GB of ram, GeForce 6600GT).
At first, it seemed to work fine, CPU would slow down when idle, but then I
noticed some serious problems - error messages popping up (memory fault,
svchost needed to close), program crashes (Firefox, explorer etc.) and total
freezes with blue screens. Sometimes I just couldn't start my sistem, blue
screen would emmediately pop up. But when I turned C 'n Q off, it all worked
fine.

I tried downloading new processor drivers from Asus web-site and directly
from AMD's. It didn't help. I disabled DEP in Windows, it didn't help
either. The strange thing is, however, that it all worked fine two months
ago. Since then, I installed additional 512mb of ram and a new video-card.

I'm wondering has anybody experienced similar problems? Is it possible that
it is a WinXP issue (maybe one of the updates messed things up)? Am I doing
something wrong? I did everything "by the book" - from settings in BIOS to
WinXP power schemes, everything is set up like it says in motherboard's
manual.

Thanks.
 
"Danijel" said:
With the coming of warmer days I decided to turn on Cool 'n Quiet on my
sistem (mobo is k8n-e deluxe, Athlon 64 3000+, 1 GB of ram, GeForce 6600GT).
At first, it seemed to work fine, CPU would slow down when idle, but then I
noticed some serious problems - error messages popping up (memory fault,
svchost needed to close), program crashes (Firefox, explorer etc.) and total
freezes with blue screens. Sometimes I just couldn't start my sistem, blue
screen would emmediately pop up. But when I turned C 'n Q off, it all worked
fine.

I tried downloading new processor drivers from Asus web-site and directly
from AMD's. It didn't help. I disabled DEP in Windows, it didn't help
either. The strange thing is, however, that it all worked fine two months
ago. Since then, I installed additional 512mb of ram and a new video-card.

I'm wondering has anybody experienced similar problems? Is it possible that
it is a WinXP issue (maybe one of the updates messed things up)? Am I doing
something wrong? I did everything "by the book" - from settings in BIOS to
WinXP power schemes, everything is set up like it says in motherboard's
manual.

Thanks.
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Perhaps you should work on your RAM timing parameters ?

Use memtest86+ (memtest.org) and Prime95 (mersenne.org/freesoft.htm)
to verify the system is stable with CNQ disabled. Once both of those
testing tools show error free operation, then re-enable CNQ and see
if your problems are solved. (You might also consider increasing the
Vdimm voltage to the DIMMS, as a little extra like 2.6 or 2.7V
will help at DDR400 rates.)

Depending on how you have set up the BIOS, it is easy to overclock
the memory by accident (verify BIOS settings by using CPUZ from
cpuid.com or A64tweaker, as the BIOS may not work the way you think
it does. There are also tools like clockgen - www.cpuid.org/clockgen.php
that can tell you how the clocks are set). A selection of Windows
level utilities, will make it a lot easier to verify that the
board is set up correctly.

You might also want to inspect the BIOS release notes.
Release 1003 has a fix for CNQ.

[ 1009 ]
Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at:
http://www.asus.com.tw/support/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx
Patch SATA hard disk with incorrect UDMA transfer rate in DOS Mode
Patch USB Legacy Support
Patch CrashFree BIOS 2 failed issue

[ 1009 ]
Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at:
http://www.asus.com.tw/support/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx
Patch SATA hard disk with incorrect UDMA transfer rate in DOS Mode
Patch USB Legacy Support

[ 1009.002 ]
Latest Beta BIOS.

[ 1008 ]
Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at:
http://www.asus.com.tw/support/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx

[ 1006 ]
Fixed SATA hard disk detection to nVIDIA chipset.
Fixed SATA DVD-ROM detection to nVIDIA chipset.

[ 1005 ]
Patch S3 function.
Support DDR 2.8V from K8N-E Deluxe R1.05.

[ 1004 ]
Improve the ability of overclocking.
Patch nVIDIA SATA hard disk detection.

[ 1003 ]
Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at:
http://www.asus.com.tw/support/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx.
Patch Cool and Quiet function.
Patch overclock function on S4 and S3 states.

[ 1002 ]
K8N-E Deluxe Release BIOS 1002.

[ 1001 ]
Initial Release.

Paul
 
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