Cool 'N Quiet

Hey guys, I have a Pavilion DV2000. Does anybody know where my Cool 'N Quiet settings are? There are no options related to CNQ in the bios/setup (damn you HP). I need some way to disable CNQ other than through power management (which I don't trust).

I have a problem similar to this guy:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/t...08577B199FEF437E5FEC?topicId=2520306358&sid=1

and have yet to find a solution, or utility that helps me with this.

Thanks

 

If you go under Add/Remove programs, and enable the showing of everything, there should be an entry which you should be able to remove/uninstall.

 

It doesn't appear to be there. What do you mean by "enable showing of everything"?

FYI: I'm running Windows Vista.

 

You shouldn't have to get rid of AMD's throttler to control the CPU. Instead, go to Vista's power management and select a high performance profile.

Still, if you're having that guy's problems and you have the stock HP video driver, its probably not the CPU.

 

I probably should have said view all installed hotfixes (its in the upper left corner of programs and features). But definitely try what bc135 said first.

 

Hmm... I don't have that option in programs and features...

I already mentioned that I'm trying to bypass using power management to fix my problem...

Thanks for the effort guys.

My problem probably isn't linked to CNQ at all but instead to my weak graphics card (geforce 6150). My issue is that I've tried playing games that I could run without latency/lag/stutter (whatever you call it) on my previous PC that had less ram, less physical memory, less powerful processor, and a geforce mx4000 (a less powerful card as far as I know). It's damn frustrating but I guess it could be caused by a number of things but I still have a hunch that it's CNQ.

 

If the graphics in your desktop was dedicated, it may have been less powerful, but it at least had dedicated RAM, that is where the stuttering will occur. Here's a screen shot of where what I was talking about (I just didn't click the underlined option this time).

 

Hmm... that makes sense. I guess I'll have to give up on the games that don't like the integrated card. It's so annoying because no matter how I tweak the graphic settings and no matter how good the game looks that occasional and omnipresent "lag" just ruins it. More ram would probably help right? I'm probably already pushing it running Vista with 1 gig

 

There's no CNQ in my "installed updates".

 

It won't be listed under "installed updates" because it isn't an update that is installed. The AMD Cool 'N Quiet driver is built into vista and enabled by default (unlike in XP where you have to download and install it). Also AFAIK there is no way to remove it.

 

Personally I would replace the driver. My stock HP driver was a piece of ****.

www.laptopvideo2go.com

 

Thanks for the advice.

So do I just d/l the latest driver package and install it? When I check if my drivers are up to date in device manager it says they are but the given date is months old...wtf?

 

Download the latest driver plus the modified INF, which will be supplied with another link on the same page. You won't miss it.

Open the driver package and extract its contents to a folder on your desktop (lets say its "nvidia"). Take the INF file you downloaded and put it in the nvidia folder, overwriting the old one.

Next, go to your device manager> Display and right click on your video card. Select "Uninstall". Restart your computer. Let Vista use the standard VGA compatible driver on start up, but don't restart for it. Instead, open the setup executable in your nvidia folder and let the installer run its course. Vista will, at some point during the installation, ask you whether you want to install driver software from an unsigned source. Don't worry about that; it just means that the driver hasn't been Microsoft approved. When its done, restart your computer and you're done!

 

I did exactly that and I got a blue screen... gonna try it once more with older drivers.

 

The driver 169.21 seems to work well, while others report that 169.04 is the most stable.