athlon xp 2100+ at 1500 +?

[brudney]

strange..anyway, have a look at your BIOS settings (FSB and clock multiplier; FSB should be set at 133mhz and multiplier at 13 which gives 1733mhz=athlon xp 2100+)

[danydrunk]

i tried that but it didnt work......it made my computer didnt want to boot, (i guess i did it right) i dont know whats up, it keeps telling me the processor is a 1300 mhz athlon xp 1500 + when its really a 2100 +, If it will help ill give my exact hardware config later, but this is what i know:

396 mgs of ram
athlon xp 2100+
motherboard (i dont know exactly, just that it is an ABIT)
windows xp
and thats about it
o yeah and a geforce 2 pro videocard

Please if anyone here knows something about it please tell me

[Lukashi]

you probably have to look on your jumpers on your motherboard my does the exact same thing if your jumpers arent set right, my epox motherboard has 2 modes cpu modes 100 and 133, althought more modes are available in the bios, check if yours has something similar...

[leif3d]

FSB problem...set it at 133...

[status quo]

i had a 2500+ set at 3200+ turned out it was doing this because the cpu was fried.

i also found myself frozen in the bios at times with this.

i replaced the chip and no problems.

[danydrunk]

thanks to all of you, it was the FSB after all and the multiplier, but the thing is i dont remember when i changed this in the first place, maybe it did it itself as a safe mode, i dont know, anyway, thank you all, and i learned new things, jejeje bye

[raz-0]

with many bios with jumperless designs, if the machine fails to post fully twice, it resets the BIOS to the most conservative settings in case you tried to do something stupid and would have been stuck with something non-functional without opening the machine and resetting it.

[Ice Czar]

now that your running at full speed
monitor those temperatures ;)

Glad you got it sorted out

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