Ok, I'm not as clueless as the title makes me sound.
Here is the problem.
I have a k7sva board with an atlon 1700+ proc, and in the cmos both the ram and cpu multiplier are set tp 100 and the clock shows 1100mhz, when I change it to 133 (it will allow me to do it 3 ways, ram 133/100, ram/cpu...