Powerplay w/ AC-Adaptor?

[poml]

Hey guys,

I have a small question. I have an IBM Laptop with Mobility Radeon 9000. Powerplay works fine in battery mode.

But there is no option to switch it on when plugged to A/C? Is this difficult to switch on? Can I patch something?

I would be very happy for any answer!

Have a nice evening!

Philipp

[mad]

with powerplay i have 3 options:
plugged in, high battery, low battery
i can set all 3 independently to either save energy or to highest performance...

using a mobility radeon 9000 too...
perhaps it's a problem with your drivers... which one are you using?
you might want to check this thread on how to install the latest catalyst drivers...

[poml]

I'm using the latest ATI drivers provided by IBM. They work fine, apart from that. My Powerplay tab looks like this:



Sorry for the German.

I could for example use the Omega drivers, but I prefer to use the original ones.

Is it very difficult to just switch on powerplay manually while on A/C?

Thanks for your answer, M_A_D!

Phil

[mad]

Originally Posted by poml

Sorry for the German.

no problem... i am austrian so i know german pretty well

Is it very difficult to just switch on powerplay manually while on A/C?

I don't know of a way how to do that...
so easiest way would be to upgrade your display drivers... otherwise i guess you'll have to live with it...

[rinthos]

Here's the scoop on powerplay. Drivers get info from the video bios. Based upon the info received, the drivers will allow or disallow powerplay, or different powerplay options.
Thus you may not be able to use powerplay, or you may not get all the options. It depends upon 2 things. 1: Video bios (hardware support) 2: Video drivers used.

Good luck.
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[alperuzi]

This is potentially dangerous because you will be messing with the registry!

run regedit

do a search for USEOLDPOWERPLAY

you will encounter a bunch of entries because whenever you install a new driver a new set of entries is created (unless some tool cleans them for you) the dword entries will be like USEOLDPOWERPLAYINTERFACE and USEOLDPOWERPLAYPROPERTYPAGE

set the values of all of them to 0
restart

May be a good idea to take a system restore backup beforehand

[poml]

Yes, that was it. Where did you have that from, alperuzi?

I did slightly different, because I did not want to mess with registry.

I took the latest IBM-ATI driver, I already had installed and changed the
...\DRIVER\2KXP_INF\CX_17699.INF File. In the [ati2mtag_M9_SoftwareDeviceSettings] section I changed

HKR,, DALRULE_USEOLDPOWERPLAYPROPERTYPAGE, %REG_DWORD%, 1

to

HKR,, DALRULE_USEOLDPOWERPLAYPROPERTYPAGE, %REG_DWORD%, 0

just as you suggested. Then I re-installed the driver with the new registry setting. Works just perfect!

Thanks very much for that.

2 questions remain:
1 How did you know?
2 Is there a trick to search for a phrase in regedit? It only finds complete Strings, e.g. if you search for Powerplay it does not find oldpowerplay...

Thanks again!

Philipp

[alperuzi]

No problem!

Actually the way you did it is the right way
I always did changes to the drivers that way too, not a good idea to mess with the registry too much.
I knew this because it happened to me too with the old, very old, Gericom drivers.
I've been messing with ati drivers for some time now because powerplay didn't used to work at all with the default inf settings, it used to mess up the screen after sleep or after 2 minutes of lowering the frequencies. Luckily those have all been solved either by ATI or mostly by better modders like patje's.
oh and if I search for powerplay in the registry, it finds all of the ones I mentioned, maybe you ticked "Match whole string only"?

[poml]

Yes, that was it again! For some reason I did not see that checkbox... Sometimes there are too many trees to see the forest... :-)

Thanks!

Ph

[master_5]

Hello,

I got the same problem and tried the solutions above. But I can still not adjust the performance when the laptop is plugged to AC.
I already tried the modded catalyst drivers and the newest IBM ones, no change.



Any idea.

thanks

master_5

[alperuzi]

that is very odd and makes no sense.

I know of a couple of different powerplay screens but this one is just strange. Maybe the AC option is cut off the screen or something.

The older versions didn't have the high battery/low battery option but they always had the ac option...

[master_5]

That´s a screenshot with another driver, but the problem is the same.

[master_5]

Hello,

problem solved. I installed the omega drivers version 2.5.90 and now I can also activate powerplay with AC. The fan is no longer working, great.


master_5

[Darrell262]

I've got a Toshiba Satellite p30 and I am using the stock drivers, (rad 9700pro 128mb) I don't see any power play, Using the cat 4.12's I also dont see any power play stuff anywhere..

[MethandRed]

Hello, I have a Compaq Presario R3000 series notebook (mob rad 9000 igp /w stock drivers) and I dont see the power play feature anywhere. Is there a way i can get this feature? It looks like im having the same problem as the guy above. I went to Ati's site and it says that my card does support PowerPlay.

[master_5]

Hallo,


have you tried the hints above with the registry? In combination with the omega drivers it worked for me.


master_5

[MethandRed]

Originally Posted by master_5

Hallo,


have you tried the hints above with the registry? In combination with the omega drivers it worked for me.


master_5

My registry values are at 0 (above it said to change from 1 to 0 and restart). Well, both of those values are at 0. I tried the .inf thing stated above but it was also set to 0

[master_5]

Hey,


did you also try the newest omega drivers?

Otherwise I don´t know

master_5

[MethandRed]

Originally Posted by master_5

Hey,


did you also try the newest omega drivers?

Otherwise I don´t know

master_5

Yes, i have. They give me the best performance on my mobile card.

[mad]

Originally Posted by MethandRed

Hello, I have a Compaq Presario R3000 series notebook (mob rad 9000 igp /w stock drivers) and I dont see the power play feature anywhere. Is there a way i can get this feature? It looks like im having the same problem as the guy above. I went to Ati's site and it says that my card does support PowerPlay.

if you don't get a powerplay-tab at all it is highly likely that powerplay is disabled in the bios...
you would need to ask compaq for an updated bios which enables powerplay...

[sama98b]

Originally Posted by alperuzi

This is potentially dangerous because you will be messing with the registry!

run regedit

do a search for USEOLDPOWERPLAY

you will encounter a bunch of entries because whenever you install a new driver a new set of entries is created (unless some tool cleans them for you) the dword entries will be like USEOLDPOWERPLAYINTERFACE and USEOLDPOWERPLAYPROPERTYPAGE

set the values of all of them to 0
restart

May be a good idea to take a system restore backup beforehand

Looked on that to get powerplay working, but in registry already set to 0 by the install.
Any more ideas?
m9700 supports pp, a2k is overclocked by asus already so they messed in bios.
What util can display the gpu/mem MHz ?