ABS G3 laptop stuck at 798mhz..

[mack]

I have a ABS G3 laptop, AMD Athlon 64 3400+ running Windows 7 Pro.

I used to play games like Half Life 2, America's Army 2, and so on with no issues whats so ever. On fairly high. It has a ATI Radeon 9700 with 128MB ram on a AGP 8x slot.

But no matter what power settings I do, It seems stuck at 798MHz. You'd think when you loaded half life 2 it would change the CPU to the proper speed, but it doesn't. It stays stuck at 798MHz (Half Life 2, while playing, says 798MHz).

What can I do? I can't find any over clocking tools for the AMD CPU, or the Radeon 9700. Windows 7 works so great on this laptop and I don't want to downgrade to XP.

Any suggestions? There's no power saving features in BIOS (very basic bios), so I'm lost. Any ideas??

 

[Alvin.C]

Hi,

Have you checked your system temperatures (importantly, your core temperatures)?

Are the 'Processor power management' settings in the advanced settings for your active power profile set properly?

Also, have you installed the latest chipset drivers?

 

[mack]

Hi,

Have you checked your system temperatures (importantly, your core temperatures)?

Are the 'Processor power management' settings in the advanced settings for your active power profile set properly?

Also, have you installed the latest chipset drivers?

I can't find Windows 7 SIS 755 Drivers. "Base System" says unknown device.
Looking at the temperatures, it says (Core Temp 0.99.5):
CPUID: 0xF4A
APICID: 0
Revision: SH-CG
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3400+ (Clawhammer)
Frequency: 798.20MHz (199.55 x 4.0)
Platform: Socket 754
VID: 1.1000v
TEMPS
Core #0: 81F
Low: 75F
High: 84F
Load: 0-15%


Laptop is set to 'High Performance'
System Cooling Policy:
On Battery: Active
Plugged In: Active
(other options are passive)

My cpu seems so sluggish. It really feels like 798MHz. I rate 1.6 because of my CPU
CPU: 1.6
Memory: 4.1
Graphics: 3.8
Gaming Graphics: 3.7
Harddisk: 4.4

So I don't get what's going on. Could it be a chipset issue? I can't find any kind of Sis drivers for this thing.

 

[mack]

I found CPUID here are some results:
Processor 1 ID = 0
Number of cores 1 (max 1)
Number of threads 1 (max 1)
Name AMD Athlon 64 3400+
Codename ClawHammer
Specification AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+
Package Socket 754
CPUID F.4.A
Extended CPUID F.4
Brand ID 4
Core Stepping SH7-CG
Technology 0.13 um
Core Speed 798.3 MHz
Multiplier x FSB 4.0 x 199.6 MHz
HT Link speed 798.3 MHz
Stock frequency 2200 MHz
Instructions sets MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE, SSE2, x86-64
L1 Data cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L2 cache 1024 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control yes
Max FID 11.0x
P-State FID 0x00 - VID 0x12
P-State FID 0x0A - VID 0x0A
P-State FID 0x0C - VID 0x06
P-State FID 0x0E - VID 0x02

K8 Thermal sensor yes
K8 Revision ID 2.6
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 0
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 1
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 2
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 3


It says my "THRM" 167(F) my "ST9100823A" temperature is 122F
167 is really hot but I don't know accurate this program is.

 

[mack]

Okay, so I left a game on for a few hours and I was able to get it to go up to 2.0GHz, but it didn't solve the sucky game performance. I wish I knew exactly what "Base System" was...

 

[mack]

I want this thing to run at FULL 2.0GHz ALL the time. It simply doesn't do it. I can't even watch movies on it because it's so choppy.. and yet the performance is great. It ranks between 3.0-4.8 on all the tests, and 1.3 on the CPU test. That's pathetic! ANYONE have ANY ideas?