The new version of EeeCTL has been released and as usual this update fixes issues, adds new features and is a recommended update.

New features:

- Back light control in 0511 style with ANY BIOS (twice brighter than 0401)!
- Suspend configuration is applied on shutdown to fix PCIE issues.
- Improved Vista support.
- Brief documentation on 0.2.* features included.
Other features:
- FSB speed control.
- PCIE speed control.
- CPU voltage control.
- Fan speed control(incl. used-defined automatic mode).
- Temperature monitor.
Notes:
- 700(2G) is still not supported.

You can now support Dci and EeeCTL by donating.

Download EeeCTL 0.2.3

Dci has just informed us that EeeCTL 0.2.2 has been released, this new version brings many new updates and is recommended for anyone using the software.

EeeCTL 0.2.2 change log:

• PCIEX speed can now be controlled too, fan can be controlled automatically with the user-defined rules, hotkeys are now much easier to configure, command line parameters are back(-c “path\to config\file.ini”(can be used once) and -e module.method(can be used multiple times, see eeectl.ini for the short list of the most useful available methods).
• EeeCTL should work with any BIOS on 701(4G[surf]) & 702(8G). 700(2G) is not supported and most likely won’t be.
• Some features may not work on Windows Vista.

Download it now EeeCTL 0.2.2 ]]> http://scalegamer.com/2008/02/11/eeectl-022-released/feed/ 0 http://scalegamer.com/2008/02/04/eeepc-overclocking-with-eeectl/ http://scalegamer.com/2008/02/04/eeepc-overclocking-with-eeectl/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:30:28 +0000 Cas http://scalegamer.com/2008/02/04/eeepc-overclocking-with-eeectl/

After the interview with Anthony aka Dci a few of you are asking, does it work? Yes! and it is excellent.

Features:

• Fan Control
• Temperature display
• Adjust CPU Clock Speed
• Adjust CPU voltage

EeeCTL is straight forward and simple to use, you can download EeeCTL 0.2.1 Preview here.

We have compiled some accurate results for the AsusEeePC that can be gained from using EeeCTL.

Hi Anthony, thanks for taking the time to sit down and answer some questions for me.

SG: Hi Who are you? Age? where are you from, care to explain a little about your self?
Dci: My name is Anthony, I’m a 22 year old guy from Moscow, Russia.
System and embedded programming has been one of my hobbies since I was 18, since last year it has also my job.

SG: What colour EeePC do you have?
Dci: I have a pearl white 4G. In fact I had no choice, this was the only option the day I bought it. but I don’t regret that at all.
My wife also has a white 8G since last week.

SG: What is EeeClock? a few of us here at ScaleGamer have heard of it but in your own words explain what it is
Dci: Eeeclock was an attempt to safely gain more performance without using the 8804 bios.
This attempt resulted in the creation of this tiny utility, which was able to do the trick.
However, eeeclock was broken by design. There are lots of problems caused by the fact eeeclock modifies windows acpi driver’s internal structures.
There were problems using asus’ acpi routines, also they were broken on 8804 bios and in fact asus can change or remove any of them in any next bios update, which is a potential problem.

So king is dead, long live the king, new project was started to eliminate these miscounts.
My new tool, eeectl, drops all the weird acpi stuff and talks with all the hardware directly. Public preview is already available, some kind of stable tool for everyday use is coming.
In addition to speed changer, eeectl also features a fan control and a temperature monitor right now. I already have a number of ideas about more functionality to be added to eeectl. However, size will be kept tiny.

SG: Which development tools and languages did you use to create EeeClock?
Dci: Both eeeclock and eeectl are written in pure C using parts of my own tiny C runtime library.
They both are compiled with MSVC using platform SDK & DDK.
Also IDA Pro was a primary tool during the research and SoftICE was the one during the acpi driver debugging.

SG: Will you release the source code?
Dci: Eeeclock source code will not be released, as it contains a lot of examples of the worst programming practices(in fact all the interesting parts are such an examples).
however, eeectl code is planned to be released under GPL v2.

SG: Are you currently working on any new software for the EeePC?
Dci: Yes, I have plenty of plans for eeectl and some directions to dig for more ideas.

SG: Do you have any favourite games that you like to play on the EeePC?
Dci: before hl2 was released, RtCW was my love, so I’m playing it right now on my eee.
Also I have a nestopia with a pack of games from my childhood(darkwing duck, chip&dale, etc) on my eee and I’m playing it from time to time.

I would like to thank Anthony for taking the time to speak with us, please support his work and him by downloading EeeCTL and providing much needed feedback to make his software even better.