AMD 3.0 shows up as 1.2 in windows XP

[Jerry]

I'm running a SATA Asus mother board with an AMD 3.0
Chip. Windows XP only recognizes it as a 1.2 GHz chip.
Will XP recognize a 3.0? or is there something I need to
tweak to make it recognize it?

 

[gravy]

-----Original Message-----
I'm running a SATA Asus mother board with an AMD 3.0
Chip. Windows XP only recognizes it as a 1.2 GHz chip.
Will XP recognize a 3.0? or is there something I need to
tweak to make it recognize it?
.

Jerry, I recently installed the Asus A7N8X-deluxe
motherboard and a AMD 2500+ CPU in a system. That 1.83
Gig chip showed up as a 1.1 Gig chip. You probably need
to boot up, and get into your BIOS and set the FSB speed
to whatever is appropriate. i.e. AMD 2500+ has a 333 Mhz
FSB, divided by 2 is 166 Mhz. so I chose the 166 FSB in
the bios.
If your chip runs with a 400 Mhz fsb, then you would
choose 200. 200 x 2= 400 Mhz
READ THE MANUAL THAT CAME WITH YOUR MOTHERBOARD AND CPU
FOR THE PROPER METHOD TO GET INTO THE BIOS AND FOR WHAT
FSB YOUR CHIP IS DESIGNED TO RUN AT. SETTING THINGS
WRONG IN THE BIOS CAN CAUSE HAVOK !!

 

[Bastet]

I'm running a SATA Asus mother board with an AMD 3.0
Chip. Windows XP only recognizes it as a 1.2 GHz chip.
Will XP recognize a 3.0? or is there something I need to
tweak to make it recognize it?

You mean 2.1GHz, I assume? If so, what are you complaining about?! That's
the correct speed. If you purchased a 3000+ CPU thinking it was 3GHz, then
more fool you for not doing some research first.

AMD have yet to produce a 3GHz CPU.