[Generic] AMD Sempron 210U w/o CPU Scaling (PSS error)

[IcyA1]

My netbook has an AMD Sempron 210U cpu built in and an ATT X1250 onboard gpu. The low power system has better graphic abilities than an atom cpu and decodes HD video (720p) under Windows. I'd like to use it as media player with my TV.

AFAIK the cpu is not capable of CPU Scaling or Cool'N'Quiet. The OPENELEC boot procedure stops after about one second with following error message:

Code:

[0.707157] [Fimrware Bug] powernow-k8: No PSB or ASP _PSS objects
[0.707207] powernow-k8: Make sure that your BIOS is up to date and Cool'n'Quiet support is enabled in BIOS setup
[w.860026] ata3: softreset failure (device not ready)

A Google search gave me hints that the error is not OPENELEC-specific and could be related not only with uncomplete BIOSes or kernel hardware incompatibiliy, but with graphic driver problems.

Is there a workaround or an OPENELEC version for the specific AMD cpu platform? Thanks.
Al

[therio]

You could try if the fusion-build gives better results, but it is only a guess for now.

[IcyA1]

Thanks for the reply, therio. I found the fusion builds for myself in the meantime and forgot to give feedbank here. The fusion build runs quite fine, but I couldn't get sound working. So I'm using the windows version of XMBC under XP in the moment. I will give OpenELEC another try next time with newer builds.

Albrecht