New CPU......................advice please
Tuesday, September 30, 2003 by Leo the Lion | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Today i threw caution to the wind and saw a great deal on an AMD XP 2400 CPU and so i purchased it. Installed it and everything goes like a rocket ship however when I booted up the BIOS gave me three CPU options - Manual, 2000 mhz and 2666 mhz. I went for the 2000 mhz option as i believe the chip is designed to run at this speed however when i boot up and look in the system device manager it shows the chip as XP 2000+ whereas it is an XP 2400. Is this right or am i missing something. 
yrag
Reply #2 Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:36 AM
Reply #2 Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:36 AM
It's a 2.0G... in bios set FSB to 266 (or 133 depending on the way the mobo lists it) .. sounds like it's defaulting to 100. You'll have no problems with memory ratio as long as it's 2100 or better.
Leo the Lion
Reply #3 Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:44 AM
Reply #3 Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:44 AM
Thanks guys i will give it a whirl. Cheers.
Leo the Lion
Reply #4 Tuesday, September 30, 2003 2:38 PM
Reply #4 Tuesday, September 30, 2003 2:38 PM
Yrag..........you were spot on......it was set at 100 which is the old athlon/duron setting. I set it to 15 X 133 and everything went smoothly. I then read my motherboard manual (Asus A7V266-E) and it appeared as though my CPU Type Freq Setting was still at Athlon/Duron so i chopped the jumpers across to Palamino and hey presto the BIOS kicked up the XP 2400 chip next boot up.
Thanks mate, your are a star when it comes to these techy things.
Thanks mate, your are a star when it comes to these techy things.
Jafo
Reply #6 Tuesday, September 30, 2003 4:34 PM
Reply #6 Tuesday, September 30, 2003 4:34 PM
As long as he helps me with my next upgrade....[in case I get a dose of brain-fade and lose the plot]....he may yet make it to Pope...
yrag
Reply #7 Tuesday, September 30, 2003 6:24 PM
Reply #7 Tuesday, September 30, 2003 6:24 PM
hmmmmm...
King yrag...nope
Prince yrag....no
Queen yrag...ugh
Emperor yrag...hummm, not quite right
Pope yrag....yeah....that's it....
Let the upgrade begin.......
King yrag...nope
Prince yrag....no
Queen yrag...ugh
Emperor yrag...hummm, not quite right
Pope yrag....yeah....that's it....
Let the upgrade begin.......
WOM
Reply #8 Tuesday, September 30, 2003 6:32 PM
Reply #8 Tuesday, September 30, 2003 6:32 PM
WOM laughs @ yrag. Like Jafo, I'll keep you in mind on my next puter problem.
Like Jafo, I'll keep you in mind on my next puter problem.
kona0197
Reply #10 Tuesday, September 30, 2003 9:08 PM
Reply #10 Tuesday, September 30, 2003 9:08 PM
Well Leo at least you did not feed the Intel machine... That's good!
Leo the Lion
Reply #11 Wednesday, October 1, 2003 12:02 AM
Reply #11 Wednesday, October 1, 2003 12:02 AM
Kona, I'm an AMD man through and through.....always have been, always will.
yrag, I like Wizard yrag.....got a certain ring to it don't you think
yrag, I like Wizard yrag.....got a certain ring to it don't you think
yrag
Reply #12 Wednesday, October 1, 2003 12:16 AM
Reply #12 Wednesday, October 1, 2003 12:16 AM
hummm...might have to put that in the running...Pope yrag does sound kind of pompous ....
yrag thinks he might have problems with his subjects looking that far down on them
yrag thinks he might have problems with his subjects looking that far down on them
Leo the Lion
Reply #13 Wednesday, October 1, 2003 12:34 PM
Reply #13 Wednesday, October 1, 2003 12:34 PM
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
The Duke of yrag...Nar!!
The Right Honourable yrag....maybe!!
Lord yrag....possible!!
Leo hears China Cat coming down the hall with her suggestions and she shouts out one idea.
Leo cries out " You can't use that - this is a family site - those sort of words are not allowed".
China repeats the suggestion.
Leo breathes a sigh of relief and says " Oh you mean, Count - Thank goodness for that i thought you said ?".
Phew!!!!!! that was a close one.
Yeah i like Count Yrag.........
The Duke of yrag...Nar!!
The Right Honourable yrag....maybe!!
Lord yrag....possible!!
Leo hears China Cat coming down the hall with her suggestions and she shouts out one idea.
Leo cries out " You can't use that - this is a family site - those sort of words are not allowed".
China repeats the suggestion.
Leo breathes a sigh of relief and says " Oh you mean, Count - Thank goodness for that i thought you said ?".
Phew!!!!!! that was a close one.
Yeah i like Count Yrag.........
Leo the Lion
Reply #14 Wednesday, October 1, 2003 4:21 PM
Reply #14 Wednesday, October 1, 2003 4:21 PM
Count yrag.........its got a sort of 
about it
about it
yrag
Reply #17 Wednesday, October 1, 2003 4:57 PM
Reply #17 Wednesday, October 1, 2003 4:57 PM
..well me being all-powerfull anddyslexic would certainly give Jafo job security.. 
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Reply #1 Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:29 AM
run the cpu/bios info for greater detail.