I punt on my old A7V133?

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I recently transplanted a 1600+ Palomino into my A7V133 rev 1.05
(dotless) with less than happy results. It works fine with at 1.2
(12*100) old tbird.

With the 1600 it boots at 10.5*133 but crashes windows pretty
regularly. Prime95 errors out within 2 minutes on a failure to read
from a temp file. 3DMark hangs by the third test.

Yesterday I tried using the 1010b bios. No help.

I tried booting at 10*125 just to see how it would handle that and it
won't even boot. 1.75 volts vcore. I've tried jumper and jumperless.

I have no idea which of the many settings to try changing. The memory
is PC133 so that shouldn't be a problem.

Maybe this is just one of those boards that won't take anything faster
than a 1.33 tbird. Nothing more is supported on this revision.

Anyone have any suggestions before I go back to the 1.2?

Not that this is critical. I have two better machines but, well, I had
this spare 1600+ chip and...
 
I have the same board running a Palomino Athlon 1800+ XP since october
2001 using the jumpers.
The Athlon runs at 1.65V and I adjusted VIO to 3.30V at the time.
Maybe the PC133 memory you use is the problem.
 
I have the same board running a Palomino Athlon 1800+ XP since october
2001 using the jumpers.
The Athlon runs at 1.65V and I adjusted VIO to 3.30V at the time.
Maybe the PC133 memory you use is the problem.
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VIO. 3.30V. Worth a try. I originally had three sticks of PC133 memory
in it but took out two just to remove that as a consideration. I'll
try a different one but it isn't like I'm overclocking this. It should
run at 133.

I can try lower voltage but the Paly is supposed to run at 1.75 as I
recall.

Are your sure you don't have the 1.05. with dot? That does support
these CPUs.
 
3.30V is the standard value for that type of RAM but I don't mean to say
your computer will run better at that voltage, maybe cooler.
For that same reason I lowered the Vcore too after some testing and
taking a safety margin in account.

(I had, up to recently, an Athlon 1.2GHz B version running at 1.55V for
over 2.5 years on a version 1.04 A7V133.)

I'm sure I have a version 1.05 (no dot) A7V133 in my computer using the
Athlon 1800+ XP.
 
I recently transplanted a 1600+ Palomino into my A7V133 rev 1.05
(dotless) with less than happy results. It works fine with at 1.2
(12*100) old tbird.
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Same here. Some of those boards had parts that will support XP chips
but many don't. I'm talking only about revision 1.05(no dot). So I
just run a 1400 @ 1500.
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I have been looking for a athlon XP for my a7v133 rev.105(no Dot). Your
experience has brought me up short . I was going to buy one on Ebay.Glad I
saw this in time.
 
I have been looking for a athlon XP for my a7v133 rev.105(no Dot). Your
experience has brought me up short . I was going to buy one on Ebay.Glad I
saw this in time.
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Of course yours might be one of the ones that works fine. But I think
I'll just comb the PC Fairs for a 1.4.
 
3.30V is the standard value for that type of RAM but I don't mean to say
your computer will run better at that voltage, maybe cooler.
For that same reason I lowered the Vcore too after some testing and
taking a safety margin in account.

(I had, up to recently, an Athlon 1.2GHz B version running at 1.55V for
over 2.5 years on a version 1.04 A7V133.)

I'm sure I have a version 1.05 (no dot) A7V133 in my computer using the
Athlon 1800+ XP.
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I didn't find the chipset or ram voltage in the Bios. Is that just a
jumper setting?

And I chanced upon a stick of PC133 (kingston value line) here at work
and tried that, same failure. Nope, I think this board just doesn't
like palominos.
 
Page 21 of the Asus A7V133 manual rev. 1.05 E743 March 2001
3. Hardware Setup
6) IO Voltage Setting (VIO)

Default setting 2-3 3.45V while standard is 1-2 3.30V
Text mentions even 3.56V as default, error?

I'm using 2*256MB of Kingston PC133

I started to try the Athlon 1800+ XP JumperFree at the time (october
2001), didn't succeed and reverted to using jumpers.
When everything worked I tried the lower voltages.
Bios version at that time was 1007.01A or when I'm wrong with the date
it might have been 1007.
But I flashed all Bios versions, even the Beta ones, since that time
without any problem (I have a Bios Savior).
 
Page 21 of the Asus A7V133 manual rev. 1.05 E743 March 2001
3. Hardware Setup
6) IO Voltage Setting (VIO)

Default setting 2-3 3.45V while standard is 1-2 3.30V
Text mentions even 3.56V as default, error?

I'm using 2*256MB of Kingston PC133

I started to try the Athlon 1800+ XP JumperFree at the time (october
2001), didn't succeed and reverted to using jumpers.
When everything worked I tried the lower voltages.
Bios version at that time was 1007.01A or when I'm wrong with the date
it might have been 1007.
But I flashed all Bios versions, even the Beta ones, since that time
without any problem (I have a Bios Savior).
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Oh, no bios setting for VIO. Well I'll try it but hold out little
hope. I've tried different memory, bios, vcore. I haven't fooled with
memory settings. Maybe there's something I should look at?

I'll throw in a different drive and reformat and reinstall Win98_SE.
Maybe the current drive is just too fu'd to work after all I've been
trying. I don't think that's the problem though.

There is a PC Fair Friday night but it's a little one. Maybe the one
next weekend will have a 1.4 or 1.333 up for grabs. Or maybe hell will
freeze over and this cpu will start working.
 
I don't think changing VIO will help and it seems you have tried about
everything else.
Personally I never install a O/S or extra hardware before I'm finished
with the Bios settings etc. and everything is running smoothly.
Just floppy drive, RAM and video is quite enough at that stage.
 
Hi!
I have an AthlonXP 2200+ (I don't know the core, but suppose it's the recent
one (Throughbred?), it is green if that helps) running in a A7V133, rev
1.04. I had the same problems you have, with crashes and instablity. I
resolved them by setting the board to jumperless. In the BIOS I set the
processor speed manually, instead of letting it at the default AUTO. I also
disabled the Spread Spectrum adjustment. Now the System works flawlessly. I
hope this helps.
Regards, Raul
 
Hi!
I have an AthlonXP 2200+ (I don't know the core, but suppose it's the recent
one (Throughbred?), it is green if that helps) running in a A7V133, rev
1.04. I had the same problems you have, with crashes and instablity. I
resolved them by setting the board to jumperless. In the BIOS I set the
processor speed manually, instead of letting it at the default AUTO. I also
disabled the Spread Spectrum adjustment. Now the System works flawlessly. I
hope this helps.
Regards, Raul
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Thanks. I've tried jumper and jumperless, manual and automatic. Even
disabled Spread Spectrum, which I think is used to reduce emissions
but can screw up overclocked PCs by bumping the FSB a bit sometimes.
No difference.
 
I don't think changing VIO will help and it seems you have tried about
everything else.
Personally I never install a O/S or extra hardware before I'm finished
with the Bios settings etc. and everything is running smoothly.
Just floppy drive, RAM and video is quite enough at that stage.
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I certainly agree. But it works fine with floppy and bios. It works
fine until I install an OS and try to do anything.
 
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