PowerNow not working on my laptop (in Vista 32bit nor 64bit, works fine under WindowsXP)

> I think I've sorted my problem with Amilo A1630 w/ 3200+ and not getting past
> the 800 Mhz mark. I am not saying it is a fix but it has worked for me. I
> updated the Fujitsu/AMI BIOS to the reference Uniwill BIOS 1.05. I did not
> breathe the entire process but lo and behold, into Vista and we have
> performance!
> Went from a 1 rating to a whoppin' 3! (yes, I know....)
> I was previously using Fujitsu-Siemens BIOS 1.03c. Never needed to update it
> really. They have released a 1.04 and I should have tried that first but went
> to the Uniwill site and downloaded the 1.05 BIOS from
> http://www.uniwill.com/UserDownload/258KA0/258KA0.php because I hate Fujitsu.
>
> A note to "I told you so'ers", there are STILL no useful options with these
> BIOS ROMs and there are still no settings within to enable Cool n Quiet or
> Turbo or whatever has to do with the proc. I reckon something sneaked it's
> way in.
>
> Another word of warning. This flash caused all of my hardware to have to be
> reinstalled. XP spat me back out so tried Vista and it handled it all for me
> nicely. Oh, and these laptops do not come with legacy floppy drives but you
> can always boot to memory key and do the flash.
>
> Hope this helps someone. Please remember though, I half expected the
> notebook to catch alight at anytime, that's how daring I felt. Don't do it if
> you don't mind waiting!
>
> Oh and did I warn you not to do it?
>
> I'm headed back into XP now, see if I can get working again. Checks and
> balances.
> He who dares. Good luck!
>
>
> "kibusi@vlh.dk" wrote:
>

> > Hi,
> >
> > Has anybody experienced PowerNow not working for AMD64 CPUs under Windows
> > Vista?
> >
> > No matter what kind of strees is put on the CPU it's stuck at 800MHz (Mobile
> > AMD64 3200+), Windows XP was able to scale up to up to 2GHz just fine, and
> > so is my Gentoo Linux - but I just can't get Vista to utilize my CPU
> > properly
> >
> > Anyone thoughts anyone?
> >
> > TIA
> >

> Thanks for the replys - think I'll have a go at the bios update, can't
> remember which version I am currently running but think it might be
> Fujitsu's 1.04 as it hasn't been that long since I last checked if any
> updates should have apperared since I acquired my notebook.
>
> Having to re-install XP doesn't scare me off (actually planning that
> anyway
> because I'm tired of my regional (Danish) installation resulting in mixed
> languages whenever I use non-danish programs...), and I really don't
> expect
> my Gentoo-installation to be heavily affected from the BIOS-update (keeps
> fingers crossed )