[To all newer AMD Turion owners]Strange power handling on hp dv5

[blackshard83]

Glad to hear that you found my program useful

And thanks for cmdow program, I think it will be useful to me too!

[blackshard83]

Hello guys, new update!

TurionPowerControl reaches version 0.29 pre-alpha with new experimental support for Family 10h processors. It means that now are (partially) supported also desktop Phenom, Phenom II and Athlon II processors, and also mobile Athlon II, Turion II and Phenom II processors.

Anyway I need feedback for proper bug discovery, since I had a limited time to work on new supported processors.

You can grab it here.

TurionPowerControl v0.29 pre-alpha

[blackshard83]

New updated version 0.29.1a alpha.

Changelog:

- Added a warning message at startup if program can't access CPUID or MSR registers that asks for administrative privileges and, for linux users, cpuid and msr modules.
- Added the -set switch, which is really useful and much more user friendly than direct FID/DID/VID manipulation. Check the documentation and examples for usage.
- Fixed detection of correct PVI/SVI mode for Family 10h processors
- Updated documentation with all the program switches
- Corrected some minor issues with K10 processors regarding altvidslamtime (unsupported on K10) and psithreshold switches
- Added requirements paragraphs in documentation
- Added the frequency and voltage items in the configuration file definition. They can be used instead of FID, DID and VID values for easier pstate manipulation. (See the included example.cfg file on how to use them).
- Corrected a detection error with Turion II/Athlon II mobile processors.
- Removed AltVIDSlamTime reporting for Family 10h processors (unsupported on them).
- Added CPU Maximum Frequency reporting


Available here:

TurionPowerControl 0.29.1a

[vozmem]

Does TPC support AMD Turion TL-58? Because whenver I excute 'TurionPowerControl' then I just got error message 'TurionPowerControl: command not found'.
I followed the tutorial in the Doc dicrectory.

[blackshard83]

New version 0.30 available.

You can download it from here: TurionPowerControl v0.30

Changelog:

- Corrected an issue with minimum voltage VID with Parallel VID
implementations.
- Corrected an issue with -set voltage switch reporting wrong rounding
when used on a specific core instead of all cores. The effect of the
command was therefore successful.
- Corrected a problem with cpu usage reporting with K10 processors with
more than 2 cores.
- Removed an annoying debug string when using -set frequency with
K10 processors.
- Added support for northbridge voltage and divisor change for K10
processors. Northbridge voltage can be changed with -nbvid switch or
using -set switch. Divisor can be changed with -nbdid switch
- Addes support for northbridge voltage change in configuration file
- Added some more usage examples, fixed some documentation issues

[DiegoON]

Hi people and blackshard83, I´m new in the forum, I was googling about a problem with my DV5-1114ea... and I finded this thread, and I´m impressed with your app!
great work, I downladed it to try as soon as possible, but... I want to ask you about what you think if is possible that this rare issue with the pstates could damage my turion ZM82 processor?... The machine started to have random shutdowns but suddenly now... when I press the power button, works for about 45 seconds... then shutdown. Press again and works for 15 seconds and shutdown... press again and instantly shutdown... so, I leave it off for 15 minuts, and the sequence is repeated when I turn on again.
I cleaned the fan (anyway was very clean...), I replaced the thermal paste with Artic Silver 5, but nothing... I was able to verify that the Microprocessor raise his temperature very very fast... (in 10 seconds and I can not continue touching the heat sink)...
Now I don´t know if I have a problem in the Motherboard VRM area or I must to remplace the microprocessor...
I can not use your app, windows or anything because the more time that the machine work is 45 seconds.
what do you think? thanks you in advance.
PD: I forgot to say the GPU is a ATI HD... and apparently have not problems, no high temperature compared with the microprocessor.

[kix_r]

Hi all, just reviving an old but useful thread.

Ive been using black shard's tool on my tx2 since I got it, but unfortunately many severe overheats seems to have compromised it's stability, probably due to the desoldering problem. Anyway. I've cooked it in it's own heat and have done the 1981 copper penny thing out of YouTube, and it's mostly been OK as long as it doesnt hit 90C otherwise I get the black screen and have to cook it again. Sigh.

Thing is its been hitting the 80s despite all the undervolting I've tried. Best case was 1.075 at 2.2ghz pstate 0. The other p states I set to most stable frequency at 0.8v and 0.75v. Worked mostly Ok, but those weird transitions appears to be causing the overheat. It seems the p state 6 transitions are coming more and more often, I don't know why. Seemingly less so when using custom scalers, but I lose the ability to throttle under battery power without user intervention.

Tried undervolting p state 0 to no avail, always crashing even if I under clock at the same time. But p state 1 and 2 have been Ok with aggressive under volt / over clock. So I tried setting the win 7 built in scaler and set it to 50% for both AC and battery and used the fastest stable clock at 0.8v (right now at 1600mhz but testing higher tomorrow) for p state 1, same with p state 2 at 0.75v. Now much less transitions to p state 6/7, so I don't see the 1.2v@1100mhz as often... Temp stable at low to mid 50s in either battery or AC. Battery life at roughly 4 hrs with an 8 cell (DIM display with wifi).

If this proves to be stable i may have found the perfect setup for my tx2!

Now to decide if I want to do SSD... G skill Phoenix pro at 120gb? Or go cheap with a Marvell based plextor? I just need Office, mainly outlook and one note, and a browser...

[blackshard83]

Hello guys, I'm resuming the thread to ask if someone has a brazos/llano processor and wishes to give a hand testing a newer version of tpc with support for those new platforms.

[unicornis]

hi, Someone could help me how to configure?

AMD Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile ZM-84
Ubuntu 11.04 64 bits


Main processor is Turion Ultra ZM Processor
Family: 0xf Model: 0x3 Stepping: 0x1
Extended Family: 0x11 Extended Model: 0x3
Package Type: 0x2 BrandId: 0x540
Machine has 1 nodes
Processor has 2 cores
Processor has 8 p-states

Power States table:
-- Node: 0 Core 0
core 0 pstate 0 - En:1 VID:34 FID:15 DID:0 Freq:2300 VCore: 1.1250
core 0 pstate 1 - En:1 VID:48 FID:15 DID:1 Freq:1150 VCore: 0.9500
core 0 pstate 2 - En:1 VID:60 FID:15 DID:2 Freq:575 VCore: 0.8000
core 0 pstate 3 - En:0 VID:48 FID:15 DID:1 Freq:1150 VCore: 0.9500
core 0 pstate 4 - En:0 VID:0 FID:0 DID:0 Freq:800 VCore: 1.5500
core 0 pstate 5 - En:0 VID:0 FID:0 DID:0 Freq:800 VCore: 1.5500
core 0 pstate 6 - En:0 VID:28 FID:15 DID:1 Freq:1150 VCore: 1.2000
core 0 pstate 7 - En:0 VID:28 FID:15 DID:1 Freq:1150 VCore: 1.2000
-- Node: 0 Core 1
core 1 pstate 0 - En:1 VID:34 FID:15 DID:0 Freq:2300 VCore: 1.1250
core 1 pstate 1 - En:1 VID:48 FID:15 DID:1 Freq:1150 VCore: 0.9500
core 1 pstate 2 - En:1 VID:60 FID:15 DID:2 Freq:575 VCore: 0.8000
core 1 pstate 3 - En:0 VID:48 FID:15 DID:1 Freq:1150 VCore: 0.9500
core 1 pstate 4 - En:0 VID:0 FID:0 DID:0 Freq:800 VCore: 1.5500
core 1 pstate 5 - En:0 VID:0 FID:0 DID:0 Freq:800 VCore: 1.5500
core 1 pstate 6 - En:0 VID:28 FID:15 DID:1 Freq:1150 VCore: 1.2000
core 1 pstate 7 - En:0 VID:28 FID:15 DID:1 Freq:1150 VCore: 1.2000

--- Node 0:
Processor Maximum PState: 2
Processor Startup PState: 3
Processor Maximum Operating Frequency: 2300 MHz

Minimum allowed VID: 64 (0.750v) - Maximum allowed VID 28 (1.200v)
Processor AltVID: 64 (0.750v)

[blackshard83]

The following command should work and be safe enough:

> TurionPowerControl -set core all pstate 0 vcore 1.100 pstate 1 vcore 0.825 pstate 2 vcore 0.785

You may wish to reduce the vcore of pstate 0 to 1.0825 or 1.075 and see if it is still stable.