Re: K7S5A cpu/ram speed stuck at 100/100 - Help!!

On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 00:57:21 +0100, In this world we created
lorisarvendu <loris@anon> wrote :

>Can one of you kind folks help here?
>
>I had a K7S5A v 1.0 running Win XP quite happily on an Athlon XP
>1600+.
>
>I got what I thought was a bargain on ebay - an XP 2000+ for £47.
>
>Processor arrived today, plugged it in, fired it up. First thing I
>noticed was that the Bios said DURON, and 192Kb cache instead of 384.
>After much investigating (downloading AMD's CPUID prog) it appears
>that although it's labelled as an XP 2000+, everything says its a
>Duron. I've got another K7S5A running an Athlon 950. I tried it in
>that. Duron.
>
>That's by the by. I removed the chip & put my old XP 1600+ back
>
>However, no matter what I do, I now can't get the CPU/RAM timings back
>to 133/133. They are stuck on 100/100 in the Bios, and I can't change
>them! The ram is a single stick of 512 DDR that until today ran at
>133.
>
>I've tried the following:
>
>Reset CMOS jumper.
>Reflash BIOS (10/29/02 version)
>
>Nothing. It's stuck and running at 1050 instead of 1600.
>
>Has anyone seen anything like this before?
>
>-Desperate Dave

Update the BIOS.
Check the BIOS FAQS on here,
http://pub65.ezboard.com/fk7s5amotherboardforumfrm6
HTH



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