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Asus A7N8X-X and AMD Athlon XP 3200+
I have had this Asus A7n8x-x MB for several months now running an AMD
Athlon XP 2200+ (1.8 ghz CPU) not overclocked in any way. I just received an AMD XP 3200+ CPU and I was trying to find some resource on the web to tell me the exact MB settings I should change for this CPU. If I just put it in the machine, it detects as an AMD Athlon XP 1100+ with the multiplier set in BIOS to 100. If I change it to 133, it displays 1900+ and 166 displays it as a 2500+ cpu...if I set it to 200 the system will not boot (until I power it completely off, then the ASUS safe mode tells me that the CPU is set incorrectly and to go in and change it. I had hoped for some paper to come with my xp 3200+ to allow me to set this BIOS correctly. Any help is greatly appreciated! Oh and I am running the latest version of the BIOS available from the ASUS UPDATE utility. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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I also noticed (after reading some other posts here) that I should set
the CPU speed to 200 and leave the memory speed for SPD instead of AUTO. When I do this, the machine will post as an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ CPU...but the system only gets as far as to the bar across the bottom for Windows XP initial startup...then it seems to hang, my HD light comes on for about 20 seconds, and my machine power off. If I turn it back on once, it powers off again, but a 3rd time and it comes up and tells me that system is not set correctly and loads bios fail safe settings. If I leave it underclocked to a 1.1 (11 x 100) it works...but only enough for me to get here and post Should I also consider replacing my RAM too? The RAM I have now (unknown brand) but is 2 sticks of 512mb (identical to each other) which report the SPD speed at 166. Anything else I should look for or consider running or upgrading would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:07:37 -0400, Information Scavenger wrote: I have had this Asus A7n8x-x MB for several months now running an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.8 ghz CPU) not overclocked in any way. I just received an AMD XP 3200+ CPU and I was trying to find some resource on the web to tell me the exact MB settings I should change for this CPU. If I just put it in the machine, it detects as an AMD Athlon XP 1100+ with the multiplier set in BIOS to 100. If I change it to 133, it displays 1900+ and 166 displays it as a 2500+ cpu...if I set it to 200 the system will not boot (until I power it completely off, then the ASUS safe mode tells me that the CPU is set incorrectly and to go in and change it. I had hoped for some paper to come with my xp 3200+ to allow me to set this BIOS correctly. Any help is greatly appreciated! Oh and I am running the latest version of the BIOS available from the ASUS UPDATE utility. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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what RAM do you have?..PC2100,PC2700 or PC3200?..have you run memtest to
check if the ram is any good? |
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The RAM I have is PC2100. Like I said in the initial post, I have 2
identical chips (512mb each) but I don't recall the brand name. I have had them for quite some time, and they worked in this same system with an XP 2200+ (1.8 cpu). The only thing different now is my CPU is now a 3200+. I would like to have PC3200 and was thinking of getting that next anyway...the problems I am having could be resolved if I just upgrade the RAM. No I have not run any MEMTEST or anything...if you would tell me where I could get such a utility, I'd gladly run it but like I said I've had the ram for almost a year and have not had any problems. I'd look and see exactly what brand they are, but they have ram heat syncs on them and I am not sure how to remove it. On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:03:29 -0400, "dino" wrote: what RAM do you have?..PC2100,PC2700 or PC3200?..have you run memtest to check if the ram is any good? ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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well to run an XP3200..you have the wrong ram..PC2100 is 133 .so you are
overclocking your memory by 67 mhz trying to run the CPU..not good. You need PC3200 for that ..other than that the max you can run is 133 x 11= 1463 MHZ.So you need that mem upgrade soon. |
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Ok thanks...I had a pretty good suspicion that had something to do
with it...I am currently running at 1100 which I will continue to run at until my new ram gets here Thanks! On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:40:57 -0400, "dino" wrote: well to run an XP3200..you have the wrong ram..PC2100 is 133 .so you are overclocking your memory by 67 mhz trying to run the CPU..not good. You need PC3200 for that ..other than that the max you can run is 133 x 11= 1463 MHZ.So you need that mem upgrade soon. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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