K7T Turbo2 & AMD XP-2400+ trouble, trouble, trouble

Last week I decided to update my office computer from a AMD 1000 to a
XP2400+ on a K7T Turbo2 M/B. (6330)

After updating the BIOS to v3.6 so it would support the new CPU, I
installed the cpu and a new heatsink. (a nice big Thermalright)

Anyway, the system runs but it's a little flaky. First, on boot-up the
sound is real garbled. It's also very slow to boot and seems to almost
stall at times. When I shut it down, it takes a long time to shut down.
Switching back to the old cpu cures all of these problems.

I've exhausted my own ideas and I'm looking for suggestions.

Thanks,

Mark

 

Probably you got a Thorton,not supposed to work with this mobo.It has the die
shape of a Barton,but with half the l2 cache deactivated.

Did you just up the fsb to 133 via BIOS instaed of setting the fsb jumper?

Finally,you could try the AMD K7 driver update from MS (winXP),which correctly
identifies all AMD cores introduced past the XP launch.(but i doubt this will
help)

 

Hi Themroc,

Thanks for taking the time to send your suggestions! I don't think it's
the processor, I took this data straight from my Newegg order:

The BIOS is recognizing the CPU and clock speed so I'm pretty sure my
BIOS update did the trick. It's running the latest v3.6 drivers.

Thinking back I don't remember moving the jumper under the memory slots.
I changed out the heatsink, HD and some noisy fans at the same time so
it's possible that I skipped it. It's simple to check that so it'll be
first on my list when I get into work.

I forgot to metion that I changed out the HD at the same time. (noisy WD
for a quiet Seagate) It's possible that something could be corrupted
with the data move. I use CasperXP to move data between drives and it's
been 100% in the past. If it's not the jumper, reinstalling Win2k might
be another option. (reinstalling stinks though)

Thanks again for the suggestions. I'll report back if anything cures the
problem.

Mark

 

Remove JP17 (prob a yellow jumper) on your motherboard.

 

With hope in my heart, I broke the computer case open and checked the
J17 jumper. But that was already open for 133fsb. So mark that one off
the list.

I reconfirmed the CPU as a XP 2400+ Thoroughbred in order to take that
one off the list as well.

Finally, I checked my BIOS again and confirmed that it was the latest,
greatest and most up to date that could be found. It's v3.6 and made for
this exact motherboard. Check that off too.

So I'm open for the next batch of ideas. Otherwise it might be time to
pull out the BFH.

Thanks again,

Mark

 

i also update from 1000 athlon to 2400+

- using XP pro (fat32 clean install)
-MSI 6330 ver 3
- lowerd vcore in bios 1.45
- used bios 2.6 (doess not show athlon 2400+ but 2000mhz instead )

and all works fine till now approx 4 weeks


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