K7S5A & problems with AMD XP 2400

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: I'm the owner of a K7S5A (version 3.1a). I recently purchased an AMD
XP
: proccessor at 2400 Mhz with 266 FSB. The motherboard supports
SDRAM(133 Mhz)
: & DDRAM(266 Mhz). Until now I used a Kingston 512 MB SDRAM 133 Mhz
and
: Direct-X showed that an AMD XP 1493 Mhz was installed. I looked at
the BIOS
: Setup utility and saw that the CPU frequency was at 100Mhz and DRAM
: frequency was at 100 Mhz too. Today i bought a new DDRAM at 333 Mhz
and the
: result was the same. I tried to update the BIOS which was
successfull and to
: clear the CMOS succesfully too. The result was same too. Then I
tried
: something else which was changing the CPU frequency at 133Mhz and
DRAM
: frequency at 133 Mhz I also changed the SDR/DDR CAS Latency at 2T.
Direct-x
: showed me then that I had an AMD XP at ~2GHz.My question is: am I
getting
: false readings from Direct-X or Direct-X is ok and I should do
changes at
: the BIOS utility.I even tried to let BIOS autodetect my CPU but it
worked at
: 1493MHz. Any workarounds?
:
: I would be very gratefull for any suggestions you would make.
:
:
An Athlon XP 2400+ @133 fsb runs at 1.93GHz

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I'm the owner of a K7S5A (version 3.1a). I recently purchased an AMD XP
proccessor at 2400 Mhz with 266 FSB. The motherboard supports SDRAM(133 Mhz)
& DDRAM(266 Mhz). Until now I used a Kingston 512 MB SDRAM 133 Mhz and
Direct-X showed that an AMD XP 1493 Mhz was installed. I looked at the BIOS
Setup utility and saw that the CPU frequency was at 100Mhz and DRAM
frequency was at 100 Mhz too. Today i bought a new DDRAM at 333 Mhz and the
result was the same. I tried to update the BIOS which was successfull and to
clear the CMOS succesfully too. The result was same too. Then I tried
something else which was changing the CPU frequency at 133Mhz and DRAM
frequency at 133 Mhz I also changed the SDR/DDR CAS Latency at 2T. Direct-x
showed me then that I had an AMD XP at ~2GHz.My question is: am I getting
false readings from Direct-X or Direct-X is ok and I should do changes at
the BIOS utility.I even tried to let BIOS autodetect my CPU but it worked at
1493MHz. Any workarounds?

I would be very gratefull for any suggestions you would make.

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 00:52:28 -0700, <> wrote:

>
>I'm the owner of a K7S5A (version 3.1a). I recently purchased an AMD XP
>proccessor at 2400 Mhz with 266 FSB. The motherboard supports SDRAM(133 Mhz)
>& DDRAM(266 Mhz). Until now I used a Kingston 512 MB SDRAM 133 Mhz and
>Direct-X showed that an AMD XP 1493 Mhz was installed. I looked at the BIOS
>Setup utility and saw that the CPU frequency was at 100Mhz and DRAM
>frequency was at 100 Mhz too. Today i bought a new DDRAM at 333 Mhz and the
>result was the same. I tried to update the BIOS which was successfull and to
>clear the CMOS succesfully too. The result was same too. Then I tried
>something else which was changing the CPU frequency at 133Mhz and DRAM
>frequency at 133 Mhz I also changed the SDR/DDR CAS Latency at 2T. Direct-x
>showed me then that I had an AMD XP at ~2GHz.My question is: am I getting
>false readings from Direct-X or Direct-X is ok and I should do changes at
>the BIOS utility.I even tried to let BIOS autodetect my CPU but it worked at
>1493MHz. Any workarounds?
>
>I would be very gratefull for any suggestions you would make.

The K7S5A BIOS does *not* autodetect the CPU FSB frequency - you have
to set it to 133MHz manually (as you have now done). The XP2400+ is
meant to run at a speed of around 1995MHz, so your readings are OK.

(2400 is a 'performance rating', not the real CPU speed.)

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Mike