I have tried this CPU in another ECS K7S5A board with a newer bios rom
update and it detects it correctly, as a AMD 2400. But I'm wondering if
the machine is actually running at 1600 and not really 2400 since the bios
is probably more lower level, etc.

There is an 'official' update on this page where it fixes the detection
for the 2400 (Search for '2400' in the page):

http://www.ocworkbench.com/2002/ecs/...cheepobios.htm

All I'm wondering is if I should 'defintely' update my bios because of
this non-detection.

thanks,
craig.

On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 23:50:20 +0000, craig wrote:

I just bought an XP 2400+ for my ECS k7s5a board. The bios detects it as a
1600 but when booting into Linux or Windows and checking dmesg and System
Info from the respective operating systems, It reports it correctly at
2.0Ghz.

Should I upgrade my BIOS to reflect what is reported in the Operating
Systems?

thanks for any suggestions,
craig.