Fish and Chips...well mainly just chips!!

[fish]

Just bought a 2.0GHz Athlon chip which he now expressed as a 2000 okay fair enough can't be bothered to argue that but...

It should run at about 1.75 ghz for an Athlon 2000 XP. I can only get it to run at 1.25 in the putter. He said it will be because your BIOS is running at 100mhz instead of 133mhz, fine said I so I put it upto 133mhz and it won't start at all.

What is the score have I got a duff chip does the chip speed relate to the FSB speed etc

[tuscan_v8]

Try changing the jumper setting?

Depending on what motherboard you've got.

[plotloss]

Yep there is a jumper on the board in addition to the BIOS setting.

[fish]

Will have another look tonight. Are you essentially saying the board may be jumpered to 100 so when I ask the BIOS to run at 133 it has a fit?

[plotloss]

Essentially, yes.

[tuscan_v8]

Yes, look at your motherboard's manual and it should be able tell you how to set it up.

Steve

[fish]

I've first of all got the fun in finding the manual online.

[plotloss]

fish said:

I've first of all got the fun in finding the manual online.

Should be no trouble.

Maker of the motherboard.com.tw

Support sections lists all the manuals...

[xsaravtr]

Could be the RAM, might not be 133Mhz so is refusing to boot...

[MickC]

You ain't said what model of motherboard, but if it's an older one a bios flash to the latest version might also help.

[Mrs Fish]

He's got it working now

[paolow]

out of interest - what did he do to get it to behave?

[Mrs Fish]

Not sure, I'm sure he will log on later and tell you though

[fish]

It just had a manual jumper for the FSB speed that was set to 100 now running fine at 133. Cheers chaps