Strange Athlon clock freq

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All:

I was hoping someone knew the answer to this: I have an Athlon XP
3000+ Barton core with a 400mhz FSB I bought from Newegg. I put it in
my Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe board. When I set the CPU frequency in BIOS to
200mhz, with the multiplier on auto (10.5), it ought to yield like 2.1
mhz, right? But I get a "CPU Overclocking" warning from BIOS, it
doesn't always function properly, and in Win XP's System thing in the
Control Panel, it reports as a 1.04 Mhz processor.

When I change the CPU frequency to 166Mhz, multiplier to Auto (10.5),
it seems to work, but System reports it is 1.75mhz.

Any thoughts on why I can't get this thing to work full speed?

Thanks,
Mark
 
All:

I was hoping someone knew the answer to this: I have an Athlon XP
3000+ Barton core with a 400mhz FSB I bought from Newegg. I put it in
my Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe board. When I set the CPU frequency in BIOS to
200mhz, with the multiplier on auto (10.5), it ought to yield like 2.1
mhz, right? But I get a "CPU Overclocking" warning from BIOS, it
doesn't always function properly, and in Win XP's System thing in the
Control Panel, it reports as a 1.04 Mhz processor.

When I change the CPU frequency to 166Mhz, multiplier to Auto (10.5),
it seems to work, but System reports it is 1.75mhz.

Any thoughts on why I can't get this thing to work full speed?

Thanks,
Mark
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I only see a Barton 3000 333/166 being sold at Newegg right now.
Are you sure its supposed to run at 200 ?
 
Oops, meant ghz on the processor speed, actually. Unfortunately, I
failed to write down the processor number, so I would have to remove
the heatsink to get at the number. However, Newegg's invoice says "CPU
AMD|3000/400 Athlon XP Barton"
 
Mark said:
Oops, meant ghz on the processor speed, actually. Unfortunately, I
failed to write down the processor number, so I would have to remove
the heatsink to get at the number. However, Newegg's invoice says
"CPU AMD|3000/400 Athlon XP Barton"
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Seems they may have given you the wrong one. Either that or your mobo/RAM
doesn't like 200MHz FSB. If it's dropping to default 100MHz due to "bad
settings" then 1.04GHz suugests that the multiplier is close to 10.5 so it
could well be the 200MHz FSB model.

Play with your BIOS, it'll likely be something in there that's the problem.
You can always jumper it to reset it if you do anything really wrong.
(That's why I like my Soltek SL-75FRN2-L, if the BIOS settings prevent
boot-up all I have to do is re-boot while holding <insert>. It leaves the
clock etc. set, just drops the FSB to 100MHz and allows you back into the
BIOS. Maybe the Asus has something similar?).
 
Oops, meant ghz on the processor speed, actually. Unfortunately, I
failed to write down the processor number, so I would have to remove
the heatsink to get at the number. However, Newegg's invoice says "CPU
AMD|3000/400 Athlon XP Barton"
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The invoice should have a part # on it. If you take that #
and append it to a standard Newegg product link it might
take you to the page. For example,
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820211119
is some memory I bought in Sept. '04. It seems to cost 50%
less now... oh well.

You might try a new bios for your board. Also if you'd
changed any bios settings, try clearing CMOS and only
setting those manditory... if the system fails to post on
one try, it will revert to the lowest FSB speed the next
time which would explain why you end up with 10.5 x 100MHz

Your newegg order history (on their website) should also
show some detail and possibly link to the product page.
 
Mark said:
Oops, meant ghz on the processor speed, actually. Unfortunately, I
failed to write down the processor number, so I would have to remove
the heatsink to get at the number. However, Newegg's invoice says "CPU
AMD|3000/400 Athlon XP Barton"
Click to expand...


A program like cpuid should save you the time and effort of removing
your heatsink.

check out www.cpuid.com
 
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