Any help appreciated, please

[jimbo]

I'm sorry if this is O/T, or if this is the wrong NG, but...
Hi,

I needed to run a repair installation of XP Home edition on my brother's
Athlon XP2200+ machine, but it wouldn't boot from the CD drive. When I
tried to enter set up, the BIOS was password protected, and as the guy who
built the machine over a year ago cannot be contacted, I moved the jumper
cap to clear the CMOS settings, and it worked.

The system has a "Socket A" Mobo, with American Megatrends AMIBIOS, and I
cannot get this to recognise the correct CPU speed or frequency - it reads
the CPU as an Athlon XP1500+ at 100Mhz, and I can only 'up' it to 133Mhz.
These are the only settings I can access. It's read the amount of memory
correctly as 1Gb.

There's a TV card in the PC - a Compro PVR - which now, whenever it's used,
maxes out the processor to 100% - this was okay prior to altering the CMOS
jumpers and settings. Incidentally, the XP repair install went okay.

How do I get the MOBO to read the processor correctly?

Thanks.
J

 

[Willie]

Manually enter the 133, and select save and exit...this will give your 2200+
about 1.6 or 1.7GHz...I have a 2400+, and it is set to 133MHz also, and that
reads 2.0GHz...Hope this answers your question...133 is normal for this
processor you speak of.

Willie