A7N8X-E Deluxe reporting an XP 3200 as Sempron 2200hz with 1012-e bios

[Eric Feinstein]

As soon as I upgraded my bios on my A7N8X-E Deluxe to the 1012-E bios it
started saying I have a sempron 2200mhz in the bios. Yet when I use sisoft
to check the CPU it does show a 512k L2 cache so I know it's not sempron.
Is this a known issue with the new bios?

Thanks,
Eric

 

[dino]

when you upgraded BIOS did you go in and set up all the settings?....they go
back to default after flash..FSB 100...etc...

 

[Eric Feinstein]

Yes

 

[Matthew Farley]

As soon as I upgraded my bios on my A7N8X-E Deluxe to the 1012-E bios it
started saying I have a sempron 2200mhz in the bios. Yet when I use sisoft
to check the CPU it does show a 512k L2 cache so I know it's not sempron.
Is this a known issue with the new bios?

Thanks,
Eric

My XP 3200+ comes up ok as it should with 1012 BIOS.

Matt

 

[Paul]

As soon as I upgraded my bios on my A7N8X-E Deluxe to the 1012-E bios it
started saying I have a sempron 2200mhz in the bios. Yet when I use sisoft
to check the CPU it does show a 512k L2 cache so I know it's not sempron.
Is this a known issue with the new bios?

Thanks,
Eric

Have you used any Windows utilities to check what kind of
processor you've got. As far as I know, the only part of
an Athlon you cannot counterfeit, is the model number
(model 10 = Barton, model 8 = Tbred/Sempron and so on).

Anything controlled by bridges can be modified by a remarker.
We've had two posters here with counterfeit 3200+ processors,
so it is something to watch for. For info on bridges, this
page is the best reference I've got:

http://fab51.com/cpu/barton/athlon-e23.html

This one has some info on the new Semprons.

http://fab51.com/cpu/sempron/s10.html

The Sempron is model 8. Pretty hard to confuse it with a
Barton model 10 ? How could the BIOS make such a mistake ?

I would want to look over the bridges on that chip pretty
carefully. One poster had access to a microscope and actually
found conductive paint mods on the bottom side of his processor.
The conductive paint was covered by another paint that matched
the color of the organic substrate.

Paul

 

[Eric Feinstein]

To clarify: I bought an OEM 3200 and originally it was read as an Athlon XP
3200 on both my original A7N8X Deluxe my A7N8X-E Deluxe. When I updated the
A7N8X-E Deluxe BIOS to 1012-e the processor is coming up as a Sempron
2200mhz in the bios. I have the processor speed at 200 and the multiplier is
at 11 in the bios as it was before the BIOS upgrade. I ran Crystal CPUID and
it is saying I have an Athlon XP Barton but the name string is AMD Sempron.
The mhz is right for a 3200, the L2 cache is 512k as it should be as well.
The Family is 6 and the generation is 7 and the model is A. I don't know if
I really have a 3200XP or if I have a 2500 or even a Sempron. I just want to
make sure I didn't get ripped off by the vendor. Any help figuring this out
would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Eric