athlon 3200 64 bit

[andy pandy]

hi
i have just bought a athlon 3200 64 bit computer from our local computer
fair, i try to know a bit about computers but am not sure about this:-in my
syste folder it states it is a 3200 64 bit but it is only showing 800MHz
surley this is not right?
also i can not get into my bios as they have password protected it.
any views welcome
andy

 

[dino]

if you can not get into the BIOS..you are kind of messed up there...sounds
like it is running at less than the 200 it needs...the setup should be
200x11...all you could maybe do is reset the CMOS and see what happens...or
contact who you bought it from and tell them to fix it...it is not as
advertised...personnally..I'd do the latter.

 

[General Schvantzkoph]

hi
i have just bought a athlon 3200 64 bit computer from our local computer
fair, i try to know a bit about computers but am not sure about this:-in my
syste folder it states it is a 3200 64 bit but it is only showing 800MHz
surley this is not right?
also i can not get into my bios as they have password protected it.
any views welcome
andy

It's right. The Athlon 64 has a feature called Cool and Quiet which allows
the clock speed to be reduced when the CPU is lightly loaded, the clock is
scalable between 800MHz and 2GHz on your part.

 

[***** charles]

hi
i have just bought a athlon 3200 64 bit computer from our local computer
fair, i try to know a bit about computers but am not sure about this:-in my
syste folder it states it is a 3200 64 bit but it is only showing 800MHz
surley this is not right?
also i can not get into my bios as they have password protected it.
any views welcome
andy

Your hardware may be working ok but if it were my computer, the least
I would want is control over it and without being able to get into the bios,
that's not right. Go to the manufacturers website and find the motherboard
and determine how to reset the bios back to factory specs. This should
clean out he password so you could if you want put in another one.

Usually involves removing the battery and resetting a jumper.

later,
charles....

 

[Ed Light]

if you can not get into the BIOS..you are kind of messed up there...sounds
like it is running at less than the 200 it needs...the setup should be
200x11...all you could maybe do is reset the CMOS and see what
happens...or contact who you bought it from and tell them to fix it...it
is not as advertised...personnally..I'd do the latter.

Actually it's supposed to be a 10x cpu. But I think cool'n'quiet should set
it to 5x, not 4x, so if I'm right it should read 1000 not 800 when idling. I
tried mine at 4x and it crashed.


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On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:06:10 -0000, "andy pandy" <andy

hi
i have just bought a athlon 3200 64 bit computer from our local computer
fair, i try to know a bit about computers but am not sure about this:-in my
syste folder it states it is a 3200 64 bit but it is only showing 800MHz
surley this is not right?
also i can not get into my bios as they have password protected it.
any views welcome
andy

When in Cool and Quite mode Clawhammers run at 800MHz Newcastle and
newer cores run at 1GHz.