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March 18, 2005 at 8:22 pm #17388MartinBradleyMember
I have the ASRock K7VT2 motherboard (Socket A), and I have recently put in the AMD Sempron 2600+ processor.
I was told that this processor would perform at speeds of up to 1.8/1.9GB. However when putting it in my PC, it is only recognised at 1.10GB. I was then advised to upgrade the BIOS, which would, “enable the computer to fully recognise the processor”.
I assumed this would give me the performance speeds indicated above, unfortunately not. I have the latest version of the BIOS. I have read somewhere that updating my firmware may help, however I am unsure on how to do this. Maybe someone could fill me in?
If you need anymore information, just ask. Thanks in advance.
March 19, 2005 at 12:10 am #116738DavidParticipantWhen you go into your BIOS, can you find what the FSB (Front-Side-Bus) is set at for your CPU? It may just be that your board us using the CPU at a lower FSB than what the CPU is intended to be run at.
March 19, 2005 at 12:39 am #116742MartinBradleyMemberI had a look in the BIOS and couldn’t actually find the speed of the FSB. Is there any alternative way to find out?
EDIT – Just found this quote on PCWorld.com, relating to my motherboard…
“The K7VT2 is an ATX board based on Via Technologies’ KT266A chipset and supports a 200-MHz or 266-MHz front-side bus, AGP 4X, up to 2GB of either SDRAM or DDR SDRAM, integrated 10 Mbps and 100M bps Ethernet support and up to six USB 2.0 ports.”
That any help?
March 19, 2005 at 1:36 am #116739DavidParticipantIs the FSB of your CPU 266Mhz or 333Mhz? If it’s 333, then you are stuck at the current clock. If it’s 266Mhz, you’ll need to find the setting in the BIOS or change the jumpers on the board to get it into 266Mhz FSB mode.
March 19, 2005 at 5:12 am #116741EEDOKMemberWhen you get a motherboard most of the time they come with a small book, IT IS AN INDISPENSABLE RESOURCE. Most of the time it will offer the instructions required to fix such issues. If you did not get one check the companies web page.
March 19, 2005 at 2:30 pm #116743MartinBradleyMemberEEDOK wrote:When you get a motherboard most of the time they come with a small book, IT IS AN INDISPENSABLE RESOURCE. Most of the time it will offer the instructions required to fix such issues. If you did not get one check the companies web page.🙂 I have a manual thanks very much.
Dave – It’s 266 Mhz. I’ll have a look around and get back to you if needs be, thanks.
EDIT – So I had a look around, found the jumper setting on the motheboard, changed it to its alternative. The processor was the recognized in BIOS as 1.7Ghz. Unfortunately, Windows then refused to load, with a “Load DLL Kernal not found” message. So I changed the jumper setting back to what it was, and back to square one.
What would be a solution here? To change the jumper setting and perform a repair install of XP?
March 19, 2005 at 5:38 pm #116740DavidParticipantI’d give that a try (Windows Repair), it’s weird that it would not recognize the new CPU though, usually windows is fine with a new one.
March 19, 2005 at 6:32 pm #116744MartinBradleyMemberIt gets even weirder.
Having changed the jumpers back around again, so they’re now set so that the processor is correctly recognised, I attempted to boot up from the Windows XP (Professional) CD-ROM. Upon the, “Press any key to boot from CD” message I received, I did.
Then it said, “Setup is inspecting your current hardware configuration”. Normal so far.
Then suddenly, my screen went blank, and the power stayed on but there was no hard disk activity nor CDROM activity. It seems as if the processor had just decided it didn’t want to process any more. I never actually got into setup.
Anyway, i’m now back at the jumper settings that work. It’s really got me stumped this time.
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