CPU Speed Problem

[Richard]

I have a homebuilt system with an ASUS NVIDIA chip set and an AMD 3200
processor (not 64). Sometimes it boots up as a 1,000 processor and sometimes
it boots as a 3200 processor. The CMOS is set properly for 3200. What should
I look for?

Richard.

 

[Cuzman]

Richard wrote:

" I have a homebuilt system with an ASUS NVIDIA chip set and an AMD
3200 processor (not 64). Sometimes it boots up as a 1,000 processor and
sometimes it boots as a 3200 processor. The CMOS is set properly for
3200. What should I look for? "


What motherboard? What processor? Are you sure you aren't reading the
HT speed?

 

[General Schvantzkoph]

Richard wrote:

" I have a homebuilt system with an ASUS NVIDIA chip set and an AMD
3200 processor (not 64). Sometimes it boots up as a 1,000 processor and
sometimes it boots as a 3200 processor. The CMOS is set properly for
3200. What should I look for? "


What motherboard? What processor? Are you sure you aren't reading the
HT speed?

I think he said it's not an A64, it's a K7. Does the K7 have power speed
control like the K8? If it does then that's you explanation.

 

[Richard]

What motherboard? What processor? Are you sure you aren't reading the HT
speed?

MB: ASUS A7N8X2.0

Processor: Athlon 3200 X86 Family 6 Model 10 Stepping 0

In System sometimes it boots and shows 3.20 gH and too often it boots and
shows 1.10 gH.

Hope that helps.

Richard.

 

[Frodo]

Could be the bios is not getting good power when the computer is turned off.
So the bios battery might need replacing.

 

[Wes Newell]

MB: ASUS A7N8X2.0

Processor: Athlon 3200 X86 Family 6 Model 10 Stepping 0

In System sometimes it boots and shows 3.20 gH and too often it boots and
shows 1.10 gH.

It should show it in MHz, not GHz. Default for the 3200+ is 11x200 for
2200MHz. Don't know where the hell you're getting 3.20GH. And WHAT is
actually showing this? Bios? Some win program? What?

boot a Linux live CD and open a console and type cat /proc/cpuinfo on the
command line and see what it says. Exp:

[wes@wes2 ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 800.077
cache size : 512 KB

 

[VanShania]

Replace your cmos battery

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