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notnamed
January 30th, 2004, 10:44
Why does my BIOS and Windows say that my CPU is an Athlon XP 1500+? It has started saying that since I reset my BIOS settings because of system instability. I have a 2200+, so nowhere near the 1500+. Bleh.
Robert
January 30th, 2004, 11:33
Change that in the BIOS.. I believe under frequency or Chip info you can change it.
notnamed
January 30th, 2004, 14:26
That's why I had to reset the BIOS, changing the FSB.
BioniX
January 30th, 2004, 15:29
My Processor is a 2800+ athlon xp barton but i can only get it to run stabily at 2500+, doesnt really bother me that much tho.
Silent-X
January 30th, 2004, 16:34
I have probs with my Athlon XP 2000+ can only run stable at 1.4GHz, doesnt say its any other kind of ahtlon xp though.. supposed to run at 1.6GHz, doesnt bug me that much.. only .2GHz diff, I would like the speeds I payed for though, what board do u have?
notnamed
January 30th, 2004, 18:31
MSI KTV series. I could look for the specific one if you like, but it's on the mobo and the way my computer is angled I practically have to take apart my desk to get to it.
Silent-X
February 6th, 2004, 13:28
Hmm. I wonder if its a mobo prob, I have yet to try my CPU in another mobo, but my board is an MSI KT333 Ultra, guess one of these days I should try it on my other mobo.
Daniel
February 6th, 2004, 14:29
Take the sidecover of your case off maybe?
notnamed
February 6th, 2004, 14:51
I know how to look at it, but the way it's angled, and the fact that there was a bird cage full of birds next to it, made it difficult to access.
Daniel
February 7th, 2004, 16:22
You may need to get a couple case fans to compensate then.
tandoc
July 8th, 2004, 03:59
sorry to dig up old threads, but i recently bought a new mobo.. and i ran into this exact same problem.. i purchased a gigabyte ga7vt600 and i use an athlonxp 2100+...

i read this thread multiple times and i can't really find a solution...
atlas
July 9th, 2004, 11:30
sorry to dig up old threads, but i recently bought a new mobo.. and i ran into this exact same problem.. i purchased a gigabyte ga7vt600 and i use an athlonxp 2100+...

i read this thread multiple times and i can't really find a solution...

Do you have stability problems or will it just not auto-detect it properly? A year or so ago when I got a new motherboard A7N8X (good board by the way) it didn't recognize my processor properly.

I had to manually change the chip frequency multiplier in the BIOS -- no problems since then.
tandoc
July 9th, 2004, 18:48
it doesn't detect it properly.. very stable :)

i guess i'll have to mess around with the chip frequency multiplier.. whatever that is... xD
tandoc
July 9th, 2004, 21:07
found the problem.. my default.. the mobo FSB is 100mhz.. or something is 100mhz.. and there is a switch on it that turns that off and autodetects it.
No Limit
July 10th, 2004, 23:52
Sometimes there's a jumper on the motherboard that will set what default fsb speed the motherboared will use, but it's usually set in the BIOS. The manual should say what your motherboard uses to set the default speed.
tandoc
July 11th, 2004, 03:19
in my case, it was a switch, not a jumper... but yeahl. it would normally be found in the bios
Daniel
July 12th, 2004, 18:27
Crap motherboards tend to suck at auto detecting. :p
tandoc
July 13th, 2004, 01:58
it's good at autodetecting.. it just makes u flick a switch first >_<
Zigadee
July 29th, 2004, 23:25
I also have the same problem. I have recently bought a new motherboard and it is detecting a 1200+athlon when i have a 2600+ installed in it. Everything is set at default at the moment. What exactly in the Bios do have have to switch so it recognises the right chip? :confused4 :confused4
Daniel
July 30th, 2004, 00:00
Depends on the motherboard.

Right now, I'm guessing it's running at 12x100fsb. It could either be in 2 places:

On the motherboard itself - read the manual about this
or
In the BIOS - the manual has some documentation on this.