A7N8X-E Delux & 3000

I have an A7N8X-E DELUX MB with sempron 2500 and 3 stick of PC3200 512 =
1.5. My board clocks @ 166 x wotever = 1.75Ghz. Everything works fine. I
put a AMD 3000 400Mhz (200*10.5) locked cpu in and I can get to the bios but
it will not boot up into XP. If I change the FSB back to 166 it boots up
just fine and says in sys info 1.75Mhz. As I said earlier the stepping
cannot be changed (locked cpu) BARTON???? Any ideas as to bios settings to
get this to work?

Hugh

"Hugh Sutherland" <> wrote in message
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>I have an A7N8X-E DELUX MB with sempron 2500 and 3 stick of PC3200 512 =
>1.5. My board clocks @ 166 x wotever = 1.75Ghz. Everything works fine.
>I put a AMD 3000 400Mhz (200*10.5) locked cpu in and I can get to the bios
>but it will not boot up into XP. If I change the FSB back to 166 it boots
>up just fine and says in sys info 1.75Mhz. As I said earlier the stepping
>cannot be changed (locked cpu) BARTON???? Any ideas as to bios settings to
>get this to work?
>
> Hugh
>
Sounds like ram is holding you back. Is it set to 200 also? Try
slacker settings (cas-assignments) on the ram if your mobo allows. (I'm not
familiar w/your mobo; but my A7N8X DeLuxe has settings to change ram
cas-levels.) HTH, s

Why would ram be holding me back? the ram is 3 x 512 ddr pc3200 400mhz ram
and its ok when the setting r set for 166fsb. So wot would be different
except that now my fsb is 200? Can u suggest any settings? Wot r your
settings?

Hugh

"sdlomi2" <> wrote in message
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> "Hugh Sutherland" <> wrote in message
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>>I have an A7N8X-E DELUX MB with sempron 2500 and 3 stick of PC3200 512 =
>>1.5. My board clocks @ 166 x wotever = 1.75Ghz. Everything works fine.
>>I put a AMD 3000 400Mhz (200*10.5) locked cpu in and I can get to the bios
>>but it will not boot up into XP. If I change the FSB back to 166 it boots
>>up just fine and says in sys info 1.75Mhz. As I said earlier the stepping
>>cannot be changed (locked cpu) BARTON???? Any ideas as to bios settings
>>to get this to work?
>>
>> Hugh
>>
> Sounds like ram is holding you back. Is it set to 200 also? Try
> slacker settings (cas-assignments) on the ram if your mobo allows. (I'm
> not familiar w/your mobo; but my A7N8X DeLuxe has settings to change ram
> cas-levels.) HTH, s
>

1. Best to have matched DDR sticks of ram, if not matched, you must
run speeds for the slowest stick, typically.
2. Ram that runs at CAS 2.0 at 133 MHz, might need CAS of 2.5 at 166
MHz, and CAS of 3.0 at 200 MHz since memory access timings are
executed more quickly when the bus speed is faster.
3. Other memory access timing values are similarly affected.

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Best regards,
Kyle
"Hugh Sutherland" <> wrote in message
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| Why would ram be holding me back? the ram is 3 x 512 ddr pc3200
400mhz ram
| and its ok when the setting r set for 166fsb. So wot would be
different
| except that now my fsb is 200? Can u suggest any settings? Wot r
your
| settings?
|
| Hugh
|
| "sdlomi2" <> wrote in message
| news:jr_vh.13219$.. .
| >
| > "Hugh Sutherland" <> wrote in message
| > news:k_Ouh.18217$...
| >>I have an A7N8X-E DELUX MB with sempron 2500 and 3 stick of PC3200
512 =
| >>1.5. My board clocks @ 166 x wotever = 1.75Ghz. Everything
works fine.
| >>I put a AMD 3000 400Mhz (200*10.5) locked cpu in and I can get to
the bios
| >>but it will not boot up into XP. If I change the FSB back to 166
it boots
| >>up just fine and says in sys info 1.75Mhz. As I said earlier the
stepping
| >>cannot be changed (locked cpu) BARTON???? Any ideas as to bios
settings
| >>to get this to work?
| >>
| >> Hugh
| >>
| > Sounds like ram is holding you back. Is it set to 200 also?
Try
| > slacker settings (cas-assignments) on the ram if your mobo allows.
(I'm
| > not familiar w/your mobo; but my A7N8X DeLuxe has settings to
change ram
| > cas-levels.) HTH, s
| >
|
|