My Athlon 2800 is running as a 2200 ...

[SinghaLvr]

I just installed a new Gigabyte GA-7N400Pro2 motherboard for my Athlon XP
2800+. (I finally got rid of that ASUS/Via board that was giving me fits
since day 1).

Here is the problem. On this new board the CPU is being detected as an
Athlon 2200, not a 2800. I know it will run as a 2800 because the ASUS ran
it that way. (Actually I overclocked it in that board.)

Any thoughts?

 

[Ruel Smith]

I just installed a new Gigabyte GA-7N400Pro2 motherboard for my Athlon XP
2800+. (I finally got rid of that ASUS/Via board that was giving me fits
since day 1).

Here is the problem. On this new board the CPU is being detected as an
Athlon 2200, not a 2800. I know it will run as a 2800 because the ASUS
ran
it that way. (Actually I overclocked it in that board.)

Any thoughts?

Your board doesn´t support the multiplier?

 

[Jan Alter]

Do you have the FSB set for 333 mhz and not 266 mhz?

 

[David Maynard]

I just installed a new Gigabyte GA-7N400Pro2 motherboard for my Athlon XP
2800+. (I finally got rid of that ASUS/Via board that was giving me fits
since day 1).

Here is the problem. On this new board the CPU is being detected as an
Athlon 2200, not a 2800. I know it will run as a 2800 because the ASUS ran
it that way. (Actually I overclocked it in that board.)

Any thoughts?

Yeah. That, from your description, it sounds like it's a 2200+ that you
were overclocking to 2800+ on the Asus and that it's being properly
detected as a 2200+ and that if you want to again overclock it then you
need to overclock it. I.E. set the FSB to 333.

And that overclocking may be why the Asus board gave you fits.

 

[SinghaLvr]

Subject: Re: My Athlon 2800 is running as a 2200 ...
From: David Maynard <[email protected]>
Date: Today 10:49 AM
Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt


Yeah. That, from your description, it sounds like it's a 2200+ that you
were overclocking to 2800+ on the Asus and that it's being properly
detected as a 2200+ and that if you want to again overclock it then you
need to overclock it. I.E. set the FSB to 333.

And that overclocking may be why the Asus board gave you fits.

Actually it *is* a 2800. I accidently had the bus speed set on the GigaByte
board to 133 and not 166. Bascially I was underclocking it here.

BUT: All is not well ....
The onboard sound on this motherboard seems to be DOA. The drivers appear to
be working, all seems well in the device manager, but no sound at all.

I think I'm going to have to RMA this thing for an exchange. Ugh.

 

[SinghaLvr]

Do you have the FSB set for 333 mhz and not 266 mhz?

That was it .... (Kinda). I had the FSB set for 133 (266) instead of 166
(333).

 

[Jan Alter]

The sound is enabled in the bios?

 

[SinghaLvr]

The sound is enabled in the bios?

Yes it is.
I checked.

(I tried to disable it for shits and grins ... once I did that all of the
drivers crashed. Not unexpected.)

It *looks* like it's working fine. But ..... no sound. I tested the
speakers on other machines. I tried every port .... nothing, nada, zilch.

I tried updating drivers, I tried reinstalling Windows .... twice. Nothing.

It's a shame ... the board seems to run fast, but I feel deaf.

I've got my RMA number. Now I just have to stuff it in the box and send it.
grrrrr

 

[john]

is this nVidia chipset?

my fic au11 nVidia chipset is doing the same thing

help?

thanx john

 

[SinghaLvr]

Subject: Re: My Athlon 2800 is running as a 2200 ...
From: "john" <[email protected]>
Date: Today 3:46 PM
Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

is this nVidia chipset?

my fic au11 nVidia chipset is doing the same thing

help?

thanx john

Yes it is.
How did you fix yours?

 

[john]

i havent yet

but i suspect its in the nForce2 drivers, sort of like the via 4 in 1 thing

thanx john

 

[SinghaLvr]

Subject: Re: My Athlon 2800 is running as a 2200 ...
From: "john" <[email protected]>
Date: Today 4:32 PM
Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

i havent yet

but i suspect its in the nForce2 drivers, sort of like the via 4 in 1 thing

thanx john

Please keep me posted if you figure it out .... I'll do the same.

This is quite irritating. (To put it mildly)

I've found NOTHING on Google about this. :-(

You would think that someone else on the planet besides you and I had this
problem before.

 

[john]

really

and there are fewer people here lately too,
but i will keep the group informed on any progress i make with this sound
prob

i will be working on that machine agian later this weekend into next week

i also have an SIS748 chipset FIC KT748 that i am about to start on and and
AOpen KT133A AK77A PRo that i am working on

thanx john

 

[SinghaLvr]

Subject: Re: My Athlon 2800 is running as a 2200 ...
From: "john" <[email protected]>
Date: Today 4:49 PM
Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

really

and there are fewer people here lately too,
but i will keep the group informed on any progress i make with this sound
prob

i will be working on that machine agian later this weekend into next week

i also have an SIS748 chipset FIC KT748 that i am about to start on and and
AOpen KT133A AK77A PRo that i am working on

thanx john

I'll keep researching. For now I put my old motherboard back in the machine.
After initially coming up with nada on my Google Search I figured that the
board is broken and was set to exchange it.

Now I'll wait and see ....

 

[john]

yes, i'm not so sure mines broken either,

au 11 nForce2

the sound symbols are all there in device manager, wav sounds appear to play
,etc, but no sound out of either the rear ports , nor out of the front case
ports after installing onto appropriate headers on board, bios setting s all
seem ok too, but since both front and rear are out that seems too unlikely

something else is amiss, i dont think the mobo is bad, i wont give up yet
either, However i am not able to RMA anyway so i dont plan to fix it , at
worst i'll slap in a pci 128 soundblaster

meanwhile i have to test this SIS748 mobo with the xp athlon xp 2600+
333fsb and see if it reads the cpu properly, i also anticipate that prob too
as in you original post

thanx john

 

[SinghaLvr]

Subject: Re: My Athlon 2800 is running as a 2200 ...
From: "john" <[email protected]>
Date: Today 5:49 PM
Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

yes, i'm not so sure mines broken either,

au 11 nForce2

the sound symbols are all there in device manager, wav sounds appear to play
,etc, but no sound out of either the rear ports , nor out of the front case
ports after installing onto appropriate headers on board, bios setting s all
seem ok too, but since both front and rear are out that seems too unlikely

something else is amiss, i dont think the mobo is bad, i wont give up yet
either, However i am not able to RMA anyway so i dont plan to fix it , at
worst i'll slap in a pci 128 soundblaster

meanwhile i have to test this SIS748 mobo with the xp athlon xp 2600+
333fsb and see if it reads the cpu properly, i also anticipate that prob too
as in you original post

thanx john

Maybe it would do us both good if I RMA mine. One of two outcomes can
result:

1) The new board does the same thing and we both know that it's not a
hardware problem. or ...
2) The new board works fine in which case we know that it was. (And it
means you can use the Soundblaster just fine)

The only reason that I want to pull the trigger on the RMA is that I only
have a short period of time to do so.

 

[john]

right

i already missed the deadline for my RMA option

so if you are about to run out of time, it'll only cost you shipping

john