On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:27:29 -0400, Marky Mark wrote:
> I hope someone will be able to help me out. I'm desperate.....
>
> I wave a K7S5A Pro motherboard and have bought an AMD Athlon XP 2500+
> processor which is supposed to operate at 1.83GHz but is currently operating
> at 1.1GHz.
>
This sounds right. The multiplier is 11x and the default FSB for that
board is 100MHz. 11x100=1100MHz or 1.1GHz.
> I've upgraded the BIOS, tried changing the BUS and RAM frequency. When I put
> the BUS frequency at 133MHz, I can't boot my HD. If I put it to 166 MHz then
> I get nothing but a blank screen and the computer doesn't boot....
>
What do you mean by you can't boot your HD? Does the macnine post at
11x133MHz? It should. You should also be able to get into the bios. If you
have problems booting Windows, that's another problem. I don't do windows
so maybe someone else can help if you tell them what version you're
running.
As far 166MHz FSB, that's another story. I've heard none of these boards
will boot with 166MHz fsb although you can get it to 166MHz after boot
with some software. The 735 chipset doesn't officially support a 166MHz
FSB either and I don't know what effect it has on the memory bus> maybe
some with that board can answer these questions.
If you can get the machine to post and run with a 133MHz, then you could
change the default multiplier on the cpu to let's say 15 and run it at
2000MHz fairly easy, or maybe 16x for 2133Mhz. Modifying the default
multiplier is easy IMO.
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