A "slight" problem with 8KRAi's CPU Clock settings

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Hiya,

Already made a similar post to the Hardware - Motherboards - Epox
forum but maybe more experts would reach my problem if I posted it
here

I try to make this as short as possible

As you can see, I'm using 8KRAi motherboard and AMD Athlon XP 2400+ as
my processor and I have the following problem with the system setup:


Earlier today, when I was configuring my system for the very first
time I noticed that my motherboard recognized my processor as a
Athlon XP 1500+ (or something like that, can't remember accurately) I
took a look at the PowerBIOS settings which hold the configuration to
the FSB and CPU Clock settings, and I noticed that the multiplier was
configured as "Auto" or similar and the system bus was operating only
at 100 MHz. So I came into the following conclusion: as the CPU:s
operating frequency is supposed to be 2.0 GHz I changed the
multiplier to 10x and the system bus to 200 MHz. (10 x 200 = 2000
aight?) After that my system wasn't bootable. The manual stated that
if a problem occurred due false overclocking configuration (which
mine apparently was?) the screen goes blank and can be returned to a
initial configuration by instantly pressing Insert. Unfortunately I
didn't have that part of the manual open at that moment and when the
screen just went blank I rebooted. The question is that should I have
pressed Insert at the very moment that the screen went blank? Is
there anything to do to revive my system back to life?

Thanks in advance

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Aight

Huge thanks, got the system operational now. Running good, thanks to
your advice

Thanks again!

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You can restore the BIOS settings to default by removing the battery for a
few seconds or moving the CMOS reset jumper if you have one.
The Athlon XP2400 should run at a mobo frequency of 133Mhz so the setting
you used of 200Mhz was some overclock! (If they released a Barton 2400 then
that would be 166Mhz). I am not familiar with your board, but Epox mobo's I
have used have the frequency set by jumper - but either way, they always
default to 100Mhz as that is safe with all the CPU's

"Sorgemus" <jarrerules@sunpoint-dot-net.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
news:410699d8$1_4@news.athenanews.com...
> Hiya,
>
> Already made a similar post to the Hardware - Motherboards - Epox
> forum but maybe more experts would reach my problem if I posted it
> here
>
> I try to make this as short as possible
>
> As you can see, I'm using 8KRAi motherboard and AMD Athlon XP 2400+ as
> my processor and I have the following problem with the system setup:
>
>
> Earlier today, when I was configuring my system for the very first
> time I noticed that my motherboard recognized my processor as a
> Athlon XP 1500+ (or something like that, can't remember accurately) I
> took a look at the PowerBIOS settings which hold the configuration to
> the FSB and CPU Clock settings, and I noticed that the multiplier was
> configured as "Auto" or similar and the system bus was operating only
> at 100 MHz. So I came into the following conclusion: as the CPU:s
> operating frequency is supposed to be 2.0 GHz I changed the
> multiplier to 10x and the system bus to 200 MHz. (10 x 200 = 2000
> aight?) After that my system wasn't bootable. The manual stated that
> if a problem occurred due false overclocking configuration (which
> mine apparently was?) the screen goes blank and can be returned to a
> initial configuration by instantly pressing Insert. Unfortunately I
> didn't have that part of the manual open at that moment and when the
> screen just went blank I rebooted. The question is that should I have
> pressed Insert at the very moment that the screen went blank? Is
> there anything to do to revive my system back to life?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
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troubleshooting newsgroups.