XP 3200 (400)

[morganwill]

After hammering out several cofiguration related issues the Damn patient has a new ailment/problem.
I now have a processor issue:
A7N8X Delexe rev. 1.04 with newish bios 1007 std.
Athlon XP 3200 (400 fsb???)
1 GB Corsair the top XMS 3200 LLPT with lot number...
Dual Raptors 36 raid0

Which has been operating with the optimial setting just fine. I go straight to bios and set cpu frequency to 200, after setting the jumper. Memory seems to in sync up and hopefully dual channel.
I do have a successful boot and win xp recoginzes my 3200 at 2.21 ghz, But suddenly very buggy, jumpy, and screen constantly/intermittently begins to flash and re-flash.. 🙁
I only have the latest Nvidia video drivers from windows updates / Microsquish. Have been hesitating immediately going to nvidia drivers after a recent IDE issue with the sw ide drivers ..
Anyway we are now back at 333, or 166 in my 1007 bios, damn CPU is recoginized as a 2500... 🙁
Pretty quick, but I know there's alot of unoptimized Megahertz that needs to be unleashed.
I finally broke down and purchased Top of the line hardware so this wouldn't happen?? I am still pretty confident that is just a matter of configuration.
Seems to be pretty frisky/speedy as is.
Plese advise.
-Preash

Thank YOU

 

[Spitfire_x86]

A7N8X v1.x uses nForce2, not nForce2 Ultra400 chipset. It doesn't officially support 200 MHz (400 DDR) FSB and often have problem with ~200 MHz FSB.

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[morganwill]

Thanks but Can this not be overcome?????
I thought many had...

Also why do I even have the 200 FSB jumper switch on the Mother board???
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by morganwill on 02/28/04 05:34 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[markgun]

Thanks but Can this not be overcome?????
I thought many had...

It's the luck of the draw really. Some sub-v2.0 boards can go way past a 200MHz FSB, some can barely get past 166MHz.


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[morganwill]

Please advise me where to start.
I have been researching something about the V-mod or chipset voltage mod.
I really want some veterns direction here.
What do you guys think about leaving the CPU frequency at 333 and just pump my corsair memory ( in Bios 150%?) that I expect to be able to run at 420 MHZ???
What about the Jumper I have set to 200mhz??
The other setting is OCourse 133/166.
Hasn't anyone had this problem with this mega-Board??
THX,
><Morgan.

 

[endyen]

Try moving the fsb up in 2 to 3 mhz steps. If you up the mem volts a step this will also help. Active heatsink on the north bridge and passive on the vregs help. Personnally I would just drop the money on an NF7-S board. Oh I just did. My old A7N board would crap out around 190 mhz fsb.