Hello All,
Could someone please help me set up my
Asus A7V266e motherboard
with a 1200 MHz Anthalon AMD processor
and PC 2700 333 MHz RAM.
I am confused by the bios settings for both the CPU and RAM and need their
proper settings.
Not familiar with that board but there are two types of Athlon 1200MHz
chips, one uses a setting of 100Mhz with a multiple of 12, the other
133MHz with a multiple of 9, set in the BIOS or by jumpers on the board.
The last character of the OPN (see first line embedded on the CPU core)
represents the front-side bus specification. An AMD Athlon processor
that supports a 200MHz front-side bus will have an OPN that ends with
the letter "B". An AMD Athlon processor that supports a 266MHz
front-side bus will have an OPN that ends with the letter "C".
Since that is the DDR spec of the bus, you would divide that by 2 so...
"B" chip uses - 100 x 12
"C" chip uses 133 x 9
Most 1200MHz Athlon's came unlocked from the factory, this mean if your
board allows multiplier adjustments you will be able to change this
setting otherwise the BIOS should auto detect the multiplier , all you
need to do is tell it the correct bus freq. 100 or 133.
Other then that all I can suggest is look in the manual or download it
if you don't have one.
BTW, PC2700 runs at 166MHz. (it's DDR so divide by 2 here too)
PCxxxx / DDR / MHz
PC2700 / 333 / 166
PC3000 / 366 / 183
PC3200 / 400 / 200
Ed
