[TriLUG] More speed problems (Athlon XP 2200+)

Andrew Perrin clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu
Thu Oct 17 12:20:23 EDT 2002


Thanks! That turns out to be it (poorly documented by AMD, by the
way).  Changing the FSB speed from 100 to 133 did it.

ap

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Jason Tower wrote:

> most motherboards have multiplier settings in the bios that may or may not be 
> automatically set for all CPUs.  try setting things to autodetect or whatever 
> first.
> 
> it is also possible that the multiplier is correct but the base frequency is 
> not.  in your case, if the bus speed is set to 200mhz instead of 266 mhz, 
> that will essentially underclock your CPU.  some boards set bus speed in the 
> bios, some use jumpers.
> 
> i just bought a MSI K7T turbo board (KT133A chipset) that had the default 
> jumper set to a 266mhz bus speed.  so when i stuck in my duron 1000, which 
> uses a 200mhz bus speed, it showed up as a duron 1300.  but only for a few 
> seconds, after which it would crash or lock up.  setting the board jumper to 
> the slower 200mhz speed cleared everything up.  sounds like you have the 
> opposite problem.
> 
> jason
> 
> On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:03, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > Well, I received the replacement motherboard from my earlier question
> > (about the XP 2200+ that was seen as a 1500+). I popped it in, moved the
> > CPU over, and in the process while the heatsink was off I read the ID on
> > the chip itself and confirmed it was a 2200+.
> >
> > BUT... it still is being seen as a 1500+. It's not strictly a linux/kernel
> > issue, because on bootup the BIOS reports it as a 1500+, so something's
> > screwy elsewhere. Can someone with more hardware experience point me
> > toward what I should try next?
> >
> > The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-7VAX which is supposed to be able to
> > handle a 2200+ and above.
> >
> > Thanks-
> > ap
> >
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