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Confused about A7v266 with Athlon XP
Hi,
I have a plain A7v266 MB with a AMD Athlon 1.4GHz CPU. With plain I mean no A7v266-E or A7v266-MX, just a A7v266. Now I would like to upgrade my CPU to a Athlon XP (because of the SSE instruction set) but I'm confused about what I read at Asus' website. They say: "A7v266: Socket A for AMD®: Athlon / Duron®: 550MHz ~ 1.4GHz+ CPU" So then I would think, no Athlon XP for me. But when I look at the BIOS updates they say; "A7V266 BIOS rev 1011 - Support AMD AthlonXP 2600+" So am I right if I say that I can install a Athlon XP if I make sure I have the right BIOS update? Because I'm a complete moron with this stuff I thought I would ask here. Also, is there more I should think about if I want to do an upgrade like this (do's/don'ts)? Thanks very much for your reply! -- Bruce |
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Flashing the BIOS with an update is never a sure thing. If it goes wrong
you may be left with an unusable motherboard. Are you OK with this? -- DaveW "Bruce" wrote in message .. . Hi, I have a plain A7v266 MB with a AMD Athlon 1.4GHz CPU. With plain I mean no A7v266-E or A7v266-MX, just a A7v266. Now I would like to upgrade my CPU to a Athlon XP (because of the SSE instruction set) but I'm confused about what I read at Asus' website. They say: "A7v266: Socket A for AMD®: Athlon / Duron®: 550MHz ~ 1.4GHz+ CPU" So then I would think, no Athlon XP for me. But when I look at the BIOS updates they say; "A7V266 BIOS rev 1011 - Support AMD AthlonXP 2600+" So am I right if I say that I can install a Athlon XP if I make sure I have the right BIOS update? Because I'm a complete moron with this stuff I thought I would ask here. Also, is there more I should think about if I want to do an upgrade like this (do's/don'ts)? Thanks very much for your reply! -- Bruce |
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DaveW:
Flashing the BIOS with an update is never a sure thing. If it goes wrong you may be left with an unusable motherboard. Are you OK with this? Well I did that already ) I now have BIOS rev 1011, but I still wonder if I can put in a Athlon XP now... -- Bruce "Bruce" wrote in message .. . Hi, I have a plain A7v266 MB with a AMD Athlon 1.4GHz CPU. With plain I mean no A7v266-E or A7v266-MX, just a A7v266. Now I would like to upgrade my CPU to a Athlon XP (because of the SSE instruction set) but I'm confused about what I read at Asus' website. They say: "A7v266: Socket A for AMD©: Athlon / Duron©: 550MHz ~ 1.4GHz+ CPU" So then I would think, no Athlon XP for me. But when I look at the BIOS updates they say; "A7V266 BIOS rev 1011 - Support AMD AthlonXP 2600+" So am I right if I say that I can install a Athlon XP if I make sure I have the right BIOS update? Because I'm a complete moron with this stuff I thought I would ask here. Also, is there more I should think about if I want to do an upgrade like this (do's/don'ts)? Thanks very much for your reply! -- Bruce |
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Ed:
On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 20:09:43 -0600, Ed wrote: On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 00:31:17 +0000 (UTC), Bruce wrote: DaveW: Flashing the BIOS with an update is never a sure thing. If it goes wrong you may be left with an unusable motherboard. Are you OK with this? Well I did that already ) I now have BIOS rev 1011, but I still wonder if I can put in a Athlon XP now... For a "A7v266" looks like a Athlon XP 2600+(266FSB)(Model 8)(Thoroughbred) is the fastest that board supports officially. see... http://www.asus.com/support/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx btw, you'll also notice you need at least a PCB revision of 1.05 or later to run the faster chips, that # should be printed on the board, most likely between the bottom PCI slots somewhere. Thanx for your reply Ed. I found out that I have PCB rev. 1.06, so I guess "Athlon XP 2200+(Model 8)(Thoroughbred)" is the best I can get, but that's ok. Thanx again! -- Bruce |
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"Bruce" wrote in message . .. Ed: On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 20:09:43 -0600, Ed wrote: On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 00:31:17 +0000 (UTC), Bruce wrote: DaveW: Flashing the BIOS with an update is never a sure thing. If it goes wrong you may be left with an unusable motherboard. Are you OK with this? Well I did that already ) I now have BIOS rev 1011, but I still wonder if I can put in a Athlon XP now... For a "A7v266" looks like a Athlon XP 2600+(266FSB)(Model 8)(Thoroughbred) is the fastest that board supports officially. see... http://www.asus.com/support/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx btw, you'll also notice you need at least a PCB revision of 1.05 or later to run the faster chips, that # should be printed on the board, most likely between the bottom PCI slots somewhere. Thanx for your reply Ed. I found out that I have PCB rev. 1.06, so I guess "Athlon XP 2200+(Model 8)(Thoroughbred)" is the best I can get, but that's ok. Thanx again! -- Bruce I have the same A7V266 rev 1.06 BIOS 1011 with Athlon 1400. I replaced the processor a few months ago for a "Athlon XP 2200+ Thoroughbred" I had no problems and all works ok You can see a improvement in speed when I run benchmark programs but in everyday use its hard to much difference. The biggest improvement is it runs cooler. Ian |
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oooeeerrr... here's me getting all excited about possible cpu upgrade to
2600 until me reads this .. :-(( checked my mobo and its rev1.04........ whats the best I could achieve ???? if mobo and cpu upgrade are in need of replacing whats works the best ? budget of 300 UK pounds tia Stephen a7a266 rev 1.04 (!) 1400 thunderbird MSI G4Ti4200 64Mb 512Mb PC2100 "Bruce" wrote in message . .. Ed: On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 20:09:43 -0600, Ed wrote: On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 00:31:17 +0000 (UTC), Bruce wrote: DaveW: Flashing the BIOS with an update is never a sure thing. If it goes wrong you may be left with an unusable motherboard. Are you OK with this? Well I did that already ) I now have BIOS rev 1011, but I still wonder if I can put in a Athlon XP now... For a "A7v266" looks like a Athlon XP 2600+(266FSB)(Model 8)(Thoroughbred) is the fastest that board supports officially. see... http://www.asus.com/support/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx btw, you'll also notice you need at least a PCB revision of 1.05 or later to run the faster chips, that # should be printed on the board, most likely between the bottom PCI slots somewhere. Thanx for your reply Ed. I found out that I have PCB rev. 1.06, so I guess "Athlon XP 2200+(Model 8)(Thoroughbred)" is the best I can get, but that's ok. Thanx again! -- Bruce |
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On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 23:13:02 +0000 (UTC), Bruce wrote:
Hi, I have a plain A7v266 MB with a AMD Athlon 1.4GHz CPU. With plain I mean no A7v266-E or A7v266-MX, just a A7v266. Now I would like to upgrade my CPU to a Athlon XP (because of the SSE instruction set) but I'm confused about what I read at Asus' website. They say: "A7v266: Socket A for AMD®: Athlon / Duron®: 550MHz ~ 1.4GHz+ CPU" So then I would think, no Athlon XP for me. But when I look at the BIOS updates they say; "A7V266 BIOS rev 1011 - Support AMD AthlonXP 2600+" So am I right if I say that I can install a Athlon XP if I make sure I have the right BIOS update? Because I'm a complete moron with this stuff I thought I would ask here. Also, is there more I should think about if I want to do an upgrade like this (do's/don'ts)? Thanks very much for your reply! Yes after you update yourbios,go for it. |
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http://www.a7vtroubleshooting.com/info/cpu/index.htm
"Lou Heitzler" wrote in message ... On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 23:13:02 +0000 (UTC), Bruce wrote: Hi, I have a plain A7v266 MB with a AMD Athlon 1.4GHz CPU. With plain I mean no A7v266-E or A7v266-MX, just a A7v266. Now I would like to upgrade my CPU to a Athlon XP (because of the SSE instruction set) but I'm confused about what I read at Asus' website. They say: "A7v266: Socket A for AMD®: Athlon / Duron®: 550MHz ~ 1.4GHz+ CPU" So then I would think, no Athlon XP for me. But when I look at the BIOS updates they say; "A7V266 BIOS rev 1011 - Support AMD AthlonXP 2600+" So am I right if I say that I can install a Athlon XP if I make sure I have the right BIOS update? Because I'm a complete moron with this stuff I thought I would ask here. Also, is there more I should think about if I want to do an upgrade like this (do's/don'ts)? Thanks very much for your reply! Yes after you update yourbios,go for it. |
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