Uninstall The AMD drivers
Reboot and enter the BIOS...Turn Cool'n Quiet off
While there check to make sure the CPU setting is correct.
Save and Exit

peter
"Ismaan" <Ismaan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B68FFF58-E2F9-4047-8385-D406D2760FAD@microsoft.com...
> Hi everyone,
> I am having trouble getting my Athlon 64 3400+ CPU to actually run at
> normal
> speed under Vista Ulitmate. I have read to other posts on this topic and
> so
> far have established that Cool'n Quiet will not work for me because my
> motherboard does not provide the correct APCI information.
>
> In principle I have no problem with this as I don't really care if Cool'n
> Quiet is disabled. The problem is no matter what Power Settings I use
> Vista
> only every runs the CPU at 800MHz and not 2200MHz. I have verified this
> using
> many CPU tools and while running CPU intensive tasks like half life 2
> etc...
> Does anyone know how to make Vista run the CPU as the native speed?
>
> Cheers,
> Ismaan
>
> ps. my system is a FS Amilo A1630 laptop, AMD Athlon 64 3400+, Uniwill
> 258KA0 motherboard, 1GB RAM.