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

Does'nt that board have a hardware jumper on it for FSB adjustments? I used
to do those boards and I could swear it had the jumper on the board.


"lorisarvendu" <loris@anon> wrote in message
news:...
> 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

On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 01:28:19 GMT, In this world we created "woody"
<> wrote :

>Does'nt that board have a hardware jumper on it for FSB adjustments? I used
>to do those boards and I could swear it had the jumper on the board.

Nope.It's all in the BIOS and he got an older board that doesn't
support his CPU.The later BIOS fixes it :O)

>
>"lorisarvendu" <loris@anon> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>> 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
>



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