<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Athlon Powersaving HOWTO</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Introduction" HREF="intro.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="article" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="ARTICLE" ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="title" ><A NAME="AEN2" ></A >Athlon Powersaving HOWTO</H1 ><H3 CLASS="author" ><A NAME="AEN4" >Daniel Nofftz</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="affiliation" ><DIV CLASS="address" ><P CLASS="address" ><TT CLASS="email" ><<A HREF="mailto:daniel@nofftz.net.NOSPAM" >daniel@nofftz.net.NOSPAM</A >></TT ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><P CLASS="pubdate" >2007-06-06<BR></P ><DIV CLASS="revhistory" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3" ><B >Revision History</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.2.3</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2007-06-06</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: dn</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >corrected the correction from 1.2.3 (thx to Rajeev V. Pillai)</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.2.2</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2007-05-30</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: dn</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >corrected a typo in the nforce disable command</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.2.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2007-05-13</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: dn</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >corrections to the new copyright statement, corrections to the disclaimer</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.2</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2007-05-10</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: dn</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >coolrun added, new URL for (brazilian) Portuguese Version, License Change (GNU FDL to GNU GPL), some minor accessibility related changes</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.1.12</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2006-04-06</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: dn</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >typos corrected</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="abstract" ><A NAME="AEN37" ></A ><P ></P ><P > How to enable the power-saving functionality of the Athlon/Duron/AthlonXP processor on some motherboards/chipsets. This is usefull for saving Power and lowering the Temperature of the CPU and the System. (It also will reduce noise if you use temperature controlled fans in your case/on your cpu heatsink). </P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="intro.html" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.1. <A HREF="intro.html#basics" >Basics on the Athlon Power Saving Mode</A ></DT ><DT >1.2. <A HREF="intro.html#copyright" >Copyright and License</A ></DT ><DT >1.3. <A HREF="intro.html#disclaimer" >Disclaimer</A ></DT ><DT >1.4. <A HREF="intro.html#feedback" >Feedback/Questions/Support</A ></DT ><DT >1.5. <A HREF="intro.html#newversions" >New Versions of this Document</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >2. <A HREF="approaches.html" >The Different Approaches</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >2.1. <A HREF="approaches.html#commandline" >The Command-line Hack (recommended)</A ></DT ><DT >2.2. <A HREF="approaches.html#coolrun" >The coolrun shellscript (recommended)</A ></DT ><DT >2.3. <A HREF="approaches.html#athcool" >The Athcool Program (recommended)</A ></DT ><DT >2.4. <A HREF="approaches.html#biosup" >BIOS updates</A ></DT ><DT >2.5. <A HREF="approaches.html#patch" >Kernel Patches</A ></DT ><DT >2.6. <A HREF="approaches.html#lvcool" >The LVCool Solution</A ></DT ><DT >2.7. <A HREF="approaches.html#fvcool" >The FVCool Program</A ></DT ><DT >2.8. <A HREF="approaches.html#760MP" >AMD 760MP Powersaving</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >3. <A HREF="else.html" >What Else?</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.1. <A HREF="else.html#testing" >How to test whether it works</A ></DT ><DT >3.2. <A HREF="else.html#bugs" >Known Bugs/Problems</A ></DT ><DT >3.3. <A HREF="else.html#fix" >Fix for sound skips and other problems</A ></DT ><DT >3.4. <A HREF="else.html#viafix" >Another Fix for sound skips and other problems (on some Via-Chipsets)</A ></DT ><DT >3.5. <A HREF="else.html#todo" >ToDo</A ></DT ><DT >3.6. <A HREF="else.html#translations" >Translations</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="intro.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Introduction</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >