Hi Laurent: Actually I have 3 Athlon 64 boxes,including my laptop, running fine with suse 9.2 with no errors. One of my motherboards is a K8V Deluxe with a 3200 Clawhammer CPU. I also have an acer Notebook Aspitr 1513lmi with an Nvidia chipset, before updating the bios I had several acpi and thermal problems problems. Maybe your cpu is a Newcastle core not very well recognized by the current BIOS so upgrade first!! it wouldn't do any harm if performed correctly! Normally the bios update should be performed from a rw media to allow you to save a backup of your current bios, so try with usb memory. (on hp web site there is a nice utility that allows you to format bootable usb keys. The other method is using windows if you have a dual boot system! hope it helps Josep Maria Macip

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Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net> 02/11/05 8:07 pm >>> Hi,

Even if my current BIOS option Cool&Quiet is on, SuSE 9.2 kernel-default-2.6.8-24.11 reports otherwise: powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.00.09b) powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ I'm thinking of updating my BIOS which is currently: str1: American Megatrends Inc. str2: 1001.005 str3: 02/09/2004 str1: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. str2: K8VSEDX str3: Rev 1.xx str4: MB-1234567890 to something more recent, on the ASUS site I found: File Type BIOS File Name K8vsedx5.zip File Size 422669 bytes Version 1005 Date 2004/12/22 Download 5501 Has anyone used this BIOS version, and does Cool & Quiet work on this motherboard with a recent enough BIOS? My AMD64 machine has no floppy, I assume I have to burn a CD or play with an USB key boot, any URL or steps to do so? Thanks in advance, Laurent -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help@suse.com