I bought a AMD Athalon 2200 CPU and I updated my bios so that the Motherboard
can handle the fast cpu. I have a K7T Turbo2 MSI Motherboard and have 256MB
of RAM. The problem I am having is that when the pc boots up it says that the
new CPU is only 1200 MHZ! I went back into my bios to find out what the
problem was. I checked the clock multiplier and it won't go any higher than
12 X 133=1596 which is no where near what the CPU is designed to run at. If I
set it any higher than that when the pc reboots nothing happens. So I have to
go back into the bios and set the clock speed to a lower setting.
The motherboard manual say that the motherboard can handle this type of cpu.
What could be the problem?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sounds like a begrudged neighbor put some sugar in your gas tank. Or the
ghost of the goldfish you murdered when you were 7 came back for revenge!

"Chris" wrote:

> I bought a AMD Athalon 2200 CPU and I updated my bios so that the Motherboard
> can handle the fast cpu. I have a K7T Turbo2 MSI Motherboard and have 256MB
> of RAM. The problem I am having is that when the pc boots up it says that the
> new CPU is only 1200 MHZ! I went back into my bios to find out what the
> problem was. I checked the clock multiplier and it won't go any higher than
> 12 X 133=1596 which is no where near what the CPU is designed to run at. If I
> set it any higher than that when the pc reboots nothing happens. So I have to
> go back into the bios and set the clock speed to a lower setting.
> The motherboard manual say that the motherboard can handle this type of cpu.
> What could be the problem?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Chris

You need to refer to your motherboard manual.. if you do not have one,
download it from here..

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/produc...p?UID=24--Mike HallMVP - Windows Shell/User"Chris" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in messagenews:621D3620-89D2-40F7-AB49-(E-Mail Removed)...>I bought a AMD Athalon 2200 CPU and I updated my bios so that theMotherboard> can handle the fast cpu. I have a K7T Turbo2 MSI Motherboard and have256MB> of RAM. The problem I am having is that when the pc boots up it says thatthe> new CPU is only 1200 MHZ! I went back into my bios to find out what the> problem was. I checked the clock multiplier and it won't go any higherthan> 12 X 133=1596 which is no where near what the CPU is designed to run at.If I> set it any higher than that when the pc reboots nothing happens. So I haveto> go back into the bios and set the clock speed to a lower setting.> The motherboard manual say that the motherboard can handle this type ofcpu.> What could be the problem?> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Is you memory PC133 or PC100.

Neil
"Chris" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:621D3620-89D2-40F7-AB49-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I bought a AMD Athalon 2200 CPU and I updated my bios so that the
>Motherboard
> can handle the fast cpu. I have a K7T Turbo2 MSI Motherboard and have
> 256MB
> of RAM. The problem I am having is that when the pc boots up it says that
> the
> new CPU is only 1200 MHZ! I went back into my bios to find out what the
> problem was. I checked the clock multiplier and it won't go any higher
> than
> 12 X 133=1596 which is no where near what the CPU is designed to run at.
> If I
> set it any higher than that when the pc reboots nothing happens. So I have
> to
> go back into the bios and set the clock speed to a lower setting.
> The motherboard manual say that the motherboard can handle this type of
> cpu.
> What could be the problem?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.