AMD Overdrive

Hi all,

I just downloaded AMD Overdrive and I can't do anything with it, not even on Novice mode. The sliders and Auto-clock are locked.

Phenom 9500
ASUS M3A mobo
Vista Home Premium

I'm the only user, hence, I have admin access and I have the right chipset...

Did I forget to do something??

Thanks

 

I went online and did a little research. It looks like, for the AMD Phenom™ Processor you can't use the AMD Overdrive with it. All supported downloads can be reference at:

www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_15259,00.html

 

Hmmm, I've done some googling and I have found posts with folks using AOD with the same processor hence why I bothered to download it at all... I can use the Benchmark and stability tests no problem and it shows me all the appropriate monitoring information. I just can't do anything to change it

 

This was the best that i could find on the information available. The only thing I would suggest trying would be to surf through your Bios and see if anything is locked for over clocking. If it is, then the application will not let you make any changes to the procs settings:

----Quote from: www.dailytech.com
Not that I'm terribly thrilled about the idea of turning off this fix, but it sounds like the BIOS erratum fix may be something that can be turned on and off to regain the performance.

The guys at Techreport orginally said that the BIOS makers might include a toggle for this fix. They later had to correct themselves because it sounds like AMD does not want this to be an optional BIOS setting. It does sound, however, like there may be a switch inside AMD's new Overdrive tweaking tool for turning the "fix" on and off.

It's certainly not ideal, but it may be interesting to see how the enthusiasts out there deal with this. For my part, I will do comparisons on the 9600 I ordered. I have the original Asus BIOS that enables Phenom support for my motherboard (BIOS 1302 for my M2N-SLI Deluxe MB - Nvidia 570 chipset). It will be interesting to see how much of a hit I actually see in my own applications. Even with the hit, I suspect to see a substantial improvement over my current X2 3800+, especially in video encoding.