M6809 - Processor Question

Hi All,

I have had this machine for about a day, and I have been playing around with it a lot - I now installed WinXP Pro and stuck on all the drivers, but I have noticed that the cpu will only run at 800 Mhz. I can change this, for example, using CPU Cool by turning on cooling mode, which flips on the cooling and bumps up the cpu to normal.

How can I make this a default setting, without the use of a third party program... And perhaps not flashing the BIOS. I'm too afraid to mess with it :S

 

P.S.

I tried loading up MotherboardMonitor, but I got stumped at the motherboard selection section... Turns out it uses an ARIMA -- Not listed.

Does anyone know of a good temp monitoring program, other than either of the two mentioned above?


Thanks!

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It seems like I have to flash my BIOS. What exactly does that entail?

Does it just require running these files (while following respective instructions)? I don't want to screw anything up!

 

Thanks for the quick reply (I didn't think I would get one so fast! [ ] ).

Flashing my BIOS scares the bajeezuz outta me... It voids the warranty, no?

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To do all of this, I'm guessing I'd have to uninstall the processor drivers from the device manager to get back to square one, right?

 

Follow the instructions I wrote here... You don't have to flash the bios, but it is highly recommended and pretty straight forward and bullet proof.

http://www.notebookreview.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12889

Stylee -
M6809 • WinXP Pro SP2 • Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.1ghz • 7200rpm 60GB • 4200rpm external 80GB • 512mb pc2700 • Radeon 9600 @ 418.5/216 • 3DMark2001 11442 • 3DMark03 3010 • AquaMark3 25751

 

Technically I think it voids the warranty, but that's why you save your old bios, and flash it back if you need to send it in for warranty work.. I do not believe they can tell how many times or if the bios has been flashed, please someone correct me if I am wrong. But like I said, I have ran it with the default bios and with the new bios, both work. So if you are not comfortable with the bios change, then keep the one you have and continue on with the steps.

And yes unistall any processor drivers that you did install and start from square one... Note: boot.ini is an invisible file on the root of your harddrive, make sure to edit it as stated if you have SP2 installed, I racked my brain over this simple fix for a week.

Stylee -
M6809 • WinXP Pro SP2 • Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.1ghz • 7200rpm 60GB • 4200rpm external 80GB • 512mb pc2700 • Radeon 9600 @ 418.5/216 • 3DMark2001 11442 • 3DMark03 3010 • AquaMark3 25751

 

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To disable DEP open up you boot.ini file and change "/noexecute=optin" to "/noexecute=AlwaysOff" and do a file/save.
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I'm not even seeing that argument in the boot.ini - This is what mine looks like... I'm guessing just add it.

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[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

 

Looks like to me that you don't have service pack 2 installed, if this is the case, don't worry about editing the boot.ini you only have to do that if you have service pack 2 installed...

Copy of my boot.ini running XP Pro SP2

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=AlwaysOff /fastdetect


Stylee -
M6809 • WinXP Pro SP2 • Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.1ghz • 7200rpm 60GB • 4200rpm external 80GB • 512mb pc2700 • Radeon 9600 @ 418.5/216 • 3DMark2001 11442 • 3DMark03 3010 • AquaMark3 25751

 

You can go to the Emachines Webpage and they have an official BIOS update. It states it's for the 6805, but I flashed mine anyway, as it was an older model of BIOS. This, from what I understand WILL NOT void your warranty.

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