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    SpeedStep Vista problem on ASUS laptops

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by matthew_eli, Feb 6, 2009.

  1. matthew_eli

    matthew_eli Newbie

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    Hi to all,

    my previous ASUS laptop, F6V, and the new one X56Va, had and has the same problem: on Vista (on Windows XP the SpeedStep works perfectly), only when I boot the laptop (after a resume from stand-by, all works perfectly), the Speedstep has this strange behaviour:

    On Balanced:

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    On Maximum Performance:

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    Do you have this problem too? Please help me to solve this speedstep issue... I use always the latest BIOS and driver for my laptop
     
    matthew_eli, Feb 6, 2009
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  2. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    You could reinstall or upgrade the ATK (ACPI) drivers.

    If you use another monitoring utility than perfmon from Windows, do you still get the same readings? E.g., use CPU-Z.
     
    E.B.E., Feb 8, 2009
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    I tried everithing, but the problem still remains...if I start the laptops on buttery, then i plug the AC, the speedstep works normally...i'm so confused...but i think that other ASUS laptops have the same, strange behaviour...could you post your CPU-Scaling graph?

    PS I tried also other software (CPU-Z, Core Temp...)and the Freq scaling is the same of the windows utility...
     
    matthew_eli, Feb 14, 2009
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    YUPPPPPPPPPPPPIIIIIIIII!!!!

    Seems incredible, but I found the solution of this problem: it was the OSD2 utility of ASUS...I uninstall it the i restart and the I power-off and start the laptop and the problem was solved...now speedstep scale the CPU frequency from 800MHz to 2.26GHz and the temp is pretty low, perhaps more than WindowsXP...I'm so happy!!!!

    I hope that this fix can help other with the same problem: kill the OSD2!!!
     
    matthew_eli, Feb 14, 2009
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    I don't know why...but the problem returns...I think that it's magic... :(
     
    matthew_eli, Feb 14, 2009
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  6. E.B.E.

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    I can think of two things:

    a) use RMClock to control the frequency (being aware that it is sometimes buggy with newer chipsets)
    b) user hibernate instead of shutdown :)
     
    E.B.E., Feb 15, 2009
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