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Offline Toad

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Athlon XP speed question/problem
« on: December 07, 2002, 05:50:56 PM »
I've got an Athlon XP 1600+. Supposed to run at 1400MHz, right?

On boot up in the new mobo it simply shows as an AMD Athlon at 1050MHz.

Motherboard Monitor shows 1062MHz.

This thing has always come in slow on the video benchmarks, showing a slow cpu.

It's done this in two different mobos, so I'm thinking I got hosed on the chip even though the box was sealed.

Or can it be something else?
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FSB isn't set to 133mhz.
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2002, 05:56:14 PM »
If it's running at 1050 the FSB is at 100 in the BIOS Hardware Configuration page.

The CPU multiplier for the 1600 is 10.52.  :D
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« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2002, 06:19:33 PM »
Yeah, it's at 100 but with BOTH mobos, it would not accept anything higher.

You can set it higher but when it boots it reverts and shows the 1050 on boot.

Suggestions?

Thx, btw.

Current mobo is Gigabyte GA-7VAX.
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« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2002, 06:33:51 PM »
Strange.

Are you sure your memory is at least DDR2100 = capable to run 133/266MHz bus speed ?
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« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2002, 06:46:01 PM »
Yeah, the memory tests out at 133. At least it did before I switched Mobos.  :)

I can always test it again though and make sure it's being read correctly by the auto function.
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« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2002, 06:46:33 PM »
Looks like you can "overdrive" BIOS settings from dip-switchs on the mobo, check what position these are and if needed enforce the bus speed to 133MHz
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Try this.
« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2002, 06:47:43 PM »
Leave the FSB at 100Mhz and try the Fail safe or optimal default settings, save and exit the BIOS and shut down.  

Restart and try switching the FSB to 133Mhz, if this doesn't work proceed to the next step.  

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Make sure you have a good 12v and 5v rail on the power supply, you might try bumping the voltage up a bit from 12v to 12.5v and 5v to 5.3v in the BIOS and double check that the mobo dip switch is set to the correct multiplier setting.
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« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2002, 07:08:06 PM »
I think its the Intake Manifold. Not enough pressure out to the catalytic converter   :D
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« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2002, 07:58:06 PM »
Thanks for the advice. Will let you know sometime tomorrow.

You see, I installed the Via 4 in 1 service pack to update the via chipset....  and it porked the whole windoze setup.

I think I'll have to reinstall doze and progress from there. At least I hope that's all I have to do. It screwed up a lot of the PCI bridge stuff apparently.

Back later.
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« Reply #9 on: December 07, 2002, 08:05:36 PM »
Hey, are there any freeware memory diagnostics out there that will confirm that this is 133 memory?

My DocMem apparently doesn't do that.

So how do I confirm it... nothing written on it that I could see when I stuck it in.

Thx again.
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« Reply #10 on: December 07, 2002, 08:21:00 PM »
Memory chips are having their speeds printed in their top.

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« Reply #11 on: December 07, 2002, 08:31:48 PM »
btw that's for Hynix memory chips thought I'm quite sure you can find similar lists for your mem-chips too from manufacturers site.

Or just type chip's part-number to the google and see if it can find anything.
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« Reply #12 on: December 07, 2002, 08:33:29 PM »
Don't see that on these; just pulled them to look.

Two of them DO have little DDR266/256MB stickers that I just noticed though. ;)

These chips say:

0142             2-2
MT                 46V16MB
TG                 -75A


The other stick's chips say:

Samsung            211
K4H280838C-TCB0

Am going to put the ones with DDR266 stickers back in for now. ;)
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« Reply #13 on: December 07, 2002, 10:40:58 PM »
The MT 46V16MB sticks are Micron DDR 266, the Samsung is also DDR266.

You may be right about needing to format/re-install, I was browsing a site looking for info on your mobo earlier, seems the FSB problem you described occurs quite often.  

Several people solved it by updating the BIOS, a format & fresh load.

VIA chipsets have given me more hell than any other I've worked on.

They are the AOL of chipset manufacturers.  :p
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« Reply #14 on: December 07, 2002, 10:52:56 PM »
First thing I did was flash the BIOS. Gigagbyte has emulated ASUS and you can do an online flash very easily.

So, if it's a BIOS problem, it's in the update as well. :(

Could flash it again, I suppose. Or I can manually set it.

VIA...... hmmm; never again then.

I am SURELY to H*LL not gonna update with that bloody service pack again. It's running right now (@ 1050... .I'll work on that in a bit) and I've been tricked by the VIA 4 in 1 twice now. I tried it once with the update on the CD with the MOBO and I also tried it after d/l ing the latest 4 in 1 from VIA.

I'll just take the "old" version that at least works.
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