Newbie question regarding Athlon XP

[NexxusBits]

I almost forgot the FSB Jumper. You have to change it to enable above 100 FSB from the factory. Good call.

You should check that you have good ventalation on your case. Check temps with the side of the case open. Enjoy your way faster machine!!!!!


Good Luck.

 

[weilin]

haha, the same mistake i made 3 years ago. Glad to be of service.

(had to change that, been building pcs for 6 years now) I didnt make hte mistake for 3 years in a row, more like 3 years ago.

 

[sunsurfer]

Same mistake I have been making for four years!
Seriously thanks everyone for your help - I will reset the jumper.

I've just noticed a positive on this - I have a 4 year old machine running too safely and it means that it still has some performance in it!

 

[blakboks]

That's funny that other people are having the same issues as I had. I wonder how many people out there are running on underclocked computers, then.

-Chris

 

[weilin]

haha, thats not the worst of it. I built many of those pcs for a company. Two years back i had to track down like 25 pcs distributed among 3 different offices to fix that jumper problem (i thought it was just a bios issue and i just hte good ol' set it and forget it and ever checked to see if it saved properly). That was fun :roll: .

What was probably worse than that was the exposed dies of hte Xps. Some of hte copper hs/fs i got were not properly finished and would crack teh edges of the dies becuase it wasnt a flush surface. The fun part is my version of "extreme" heatsink lapping to get a bulk order of 20 working after destroying 1 cpu. (the heatsinks were so bad that u could still see were hte diamond blade saws cut into the copper to make hte device in the first place). The grooves pressed hte tension of hte clip to like a 2mm slit on the die of a cpu. **Crack**.

 

[sunsurfer]

I've just found that it is not the jumper that was wrong - I correctly set that at 133mhz 4 years ago. What I forgot to do was change the FSB in the bios.

So what I have now is an athlon xp 1800. I don't want to sound ungrateful but I am sure I bought an athlon xp 2000! Is there any reason why a motherboard will only accept a processor running at 1800 instead of its 2000 rating?

core speed = 1536
multiplier = 11.5

If it is a 2000 multiplier should be 12.5. Bios wont accept a 12.5 multiplier so presumably it is locked.
Have I got an 1800 or did I just imagine I bought a 2000?

 

[Pain]

Pull the HS off and look at the lable. It will tell you what you have.

IRT topic, that's on hellava upgrade. You just got a great CPU increase in speed for nothing.

 

[sunsurfer]

Yes, I was trying to avoid taking the heat sink and fan off due to having to clean it all up and reapply thermal paste and all that. I might just let it be - as you say already got a 'free' speed upgrade 😀