Belarc Diagnostic tool - highly recommended

[beet1e]

Gentlemen,

I have been using the Belarc Advisor program on mine and other PCs. It provides an enormously detailed report on your PC, including the different versions of software that are installed, the hardware etc. I think it would be useful to provide this information when posing a question in this forum about a hardware or software problem. Download it now! It's only about 588K. Try it out, and post back here to let me know what you think.

URL is http://www.belarc.com/Download.html

[Gunthr]

My little sister in Michigan is computer illiterate, and I was trying to help her out with a problem without knowing anything about her computer.

I sent her the advisor with instructions how to install it, run it, and email me the results. Bingo! I know exactly what she's got now. Saved me a lot of phone time. Thanks

[NHMadmax]

thanks for the info a very usefull little progam will save loads of work trying to find all the info out when i have a problem

[Eagler]

yes, very neat - will come in handy - ty

[sirch]

Thanks BEETLE, that was great info tip you posted on Belarc. I just ried it out and in notime flat it showed me everything my puter has. Only problem I have is its says my KMD athlon is 1150mz, It should be 1.5 or the same as a 1.9 according to AMD. A friend was in my BIOS set-up a while back when I was having some problems, do you think he could have changed something in there? I am pretty sad when it comes to computers, even tho I try to help myself as much as I can LOL.

[DAVENRINO]

Sirch,
There is a real good chance that your FSB got changed to 100 instead of 133, assuming that is what your motherboard is supposed to be.  It is very easy to change back. Enter your bios /advanced/cpu timing.  I am guessing your multiplier is 11.5.
Multiplied by 100 = 1150  multiplied by 133 = 1529.5
If your motherboard has a FSB of 266 make sure your FSB is set to 133 in your Bios. Won't hurt to check.
DJ229

[beet1e]

Daverino

Maybe you can help me! MY bus clock is showing as 100MHz. But the memory and motherboard should support 133. Should the bus clock speed therefore be 133 also? I've found the mobo settings that I would need to change, but right now it's set to 1.2GHz which is OK (?) because it's an Athlon 1.2GHz processor.  I don't want to overclock the thing, but should I at least address the bus clock speed?

Here's my Belarc report (.MHT web archive - open with browser) - should you need it. You wont see Aces High in the software list. That's on the other hard drive.

[DAVENRINO]

Beetle,
I am certainly not an expert, I just noticed the relationship in Sirch's cpu freq and bus speed. When bus speed and multiplier multiplied they always equal cpu speed. In your case you would need a multiplier of 9 x 133 to equal 1.2 ghz.  If you change FSB to 133 I would think you also have to change multiplyer to 9? My A7M266 has very limited adjustments and I am not familiar with your board.  Maybe you can get Bloom or some other expert to help.  Sorry I can't be more help.
DJ229

[sirch]

Thanks DAVENRINO. I just now finished going into the bios set-up, you were right my clock speed was set at 100. After much clicking with the arrow keys thru all the combinations, the best I could get was 133 and 1133 multiplier. I chose this because it was the closest to 133X1150. Now cpu speed is back to 1533 where it was when I first recieved it. Also when I benchmark the system (logical) it is right up there on the hi end. When I benchmark (physical) it is between lo end and medium. This is higher than it was before I made these changes. (it was LO end). I really dont remember if the physical was this way when I first received my puter (it may have been). The logical readout is where it was when I first got this machine. It also appeasrs to be much faster like it usewd to be when loading pages and such. I know it has a heavy duty fan so I dont think it will overheat.

Thanks again for your help

[LePaul]

Pretty cool program (had seen it on Crucial's Site)

One bug, it says my laptop's Pentium II cpu is a Celeron...according to IBM, and my manual, its a Pentium 2...perhaps it has a hard time reading laptop CPUs that use differing voltage, etc?

[Sac1]

Wonder if this is a Microsft company in disguise?  Anyway someone knows more  of what's  on one of my computers now  then I do

[beet1e]

Davenrino,

Well, I sure know a lot more about bus clock speeds and multipliers than I did this morning!  

I had a go at modifying the FSB (front side bus) speed on my BIOS. I changed it from 100MHz to 133MHz. But oh!  When I tried to boot up, my system just died. The monitor went into standby mode and remained blank. According to the Asus A7V133 mobo manual, the system can become unstable, or hang, with some settings, but you're supposed to be able to restart the BIOS in safe mode. That didn't happen, so I had a dead PC that I could not start.

Luckily I had a copy of ADOBE and my mobo manual in .PDF format on a CD, so I took the CD to a friend's house and printed out the pages concerned with setting up the mobo in jumper mode or jumper free mode. I realise now that the multiplier is set at 12, and this is correct. The other value, 100MHz is multiplied by the first value to give a result of 1200 - and that's as it should be for my Athlon 1.2GHz, given that I do not want to overclock it. I had to open up the case and move one jumper to set jumper mode, then set one bank of DIP switches to give a multiplier of 12, and the other bank of switches to specify 100MHz bus clock speed. After that, the system booted up again just fine.

I think I'll leave those settings alone from now on!

[Sac1]

The more I look at the info that this program produces the more I would suggest people to think twice about using it.  Damn thing even tells you  your key for your Operatinfg System.  This information is returned to you through your web browser.  What if all this info went into a data base and was cross referenced?   If you had more then 1 computer and used the same OS  CD on both computers someone will know it real soon.  A data base would spit your number out IP and damn, the whole population of the U.S. will be in jail.  Can you take simulators to prison?

[DAVENRINO]

Beetle,
Sorry you had such big problems and glad you got it going again.  That is why I didn't suggest you change anything before you got advice from someone who really knows what they are doing.  I have never even tried any overclocking .  My A7M266/1.4 Tbird is set at stock setting of 133 x 10.5 and Sirch's 1.5 Ath is supposed to be at 133 FSB. Hmm.. you tried to start your puter at 12 x 133=1596mhz no wonder it refused to start.
DJ229

[steely07]

I'm trying to help someone atm and that was just what i needed Beetle
thanks a lot