Miss reading CPU frequency?

[Patrick O'Brien]

Evening All,

Can anyone help please?

I have an Athlon XP 3000+ installed on a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2.

The packaging on the AMD CPU says that it should be running at 2167 MHz!!!

WinXP is showing the frequency as being 1.76 MHz.

The clock multiplier for this CPU is 13x. I have left the CLK_RATIO in the
motherboard as the default, i.e. with all 6 switches in the off position.

If I look down the table, 13x is showing as OOXOXO (O being 'ON' and X being
'OFF')

Any and all help would be gratefully appreciated.

Regards,

Patrick.

 

[Jan Alter]

Do you have any idea what the default CPU fsb frequency of the board is on
the Gigabyte mb? My guess is that it's 133 mhz instead of the 166 that it
ought to be. Try manually setting the fsb for 166 (translated will be 13 x
166 = 2167 mhz) and you should get what you're intending.

 

[sooky grumper]

Do you have any idea what the default CPU fsb frequency of the board is on
the Gigabyte mb? My guess is that it's 133 mhz instead of the 166 that it
ought to be. Try manually setting the fsb for 166 (translated will be 13 x
166 = 2167 mhz) and you should get what you're intending.

Not sure about that specific board, but gigabyte usually buts a little
switch in an open location on their motherboards to switch the CPU FSB
frequency (100/133/166).