help with mobo prob.

BudBud Chesterfield, Va
edited October 2003 in Hardware
I bought an Asus A7N8X Deluxe and have a XP 2200+ when I booted it up and loaded the drivers. Now its says my cpu is at 1.3 Ghz, I know they normally work at 1.8, what happened? What should my settings be in my BIOS. Also has anyone overclocked a Asus A7N8X with a xp 2200+?
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  • RiddickRiddick Malaysia Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Make sure your FSB is running at 133 mhz

    i've had a couple of mobos come running default at 100 mhz, which can be remedied by flipping a switch in the mobo or adjusting the bios
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited October 2003
    when i go from 100 to 133 it wont stay stable, what should volatge and multiplier be
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    13.5 x 133. 1.65v.
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited October 2003
    If I remember right about my A7N8X, it has a jumper on the mobo to select 100/133 fsb, which may or may not help stabilize your rig.
  • RiddickRiddick Malaysia Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    bud.. it cant be not stable.. 133 are the default speeds..

    perhaps you've incorrectly mounted the heatsink? too high ambient temps?
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited October 2003
    The jumper on my board is for 200 then 266,300. I dint see a jumper for a 133. I dunno im pretty sure the heatsink is right.
    :aol::doh:
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    muddocktor had this to say
    If I remember right about my A7N8X, it has a jumper on the mobo to select 100/133 fsb, which may or may not help stabilize your rig.

    Riddick had this to say
    bud.. it cant be not stable.. 133 are the default speeds..

    perhaps you've incorrectly mounted the heatsink? too high ambient temps?

    Bud had this to say
    The jumper on my board is for 200 then 266,300. I dint see a jumper for a 133. I dunno im pretty sure the heatsink is right.
    :aol::doh:

    Here you go. You need to set it as mentioned in the manual. If the jumper is set wrong it will never be stable.
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  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited October 2003
    what jumper should i set mine too. The 400/330/266 or the 200 jumper. Im confused on which one to do.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Bud had this to say
    what jumper should i set mine too. The 400/330/266 or the 200 jumper. Im confused on which one to do.

    Using the diagram above first look to see which position yours is in right now. If it looks like the one on the RIGHT, change it to look like the one on the LEFT. You want it in the 266/333/400 position.
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited October 2003
    The jumper is right. I can get it at 133 at a 12x multiplyer with 1.65v buts thats only 1.6GHz
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Set it to left.

    13.5 x 133. 1.65v.
  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    What nobody has mentioned is that 133 fsb using ddr = 266 setting. So, as mentioned above, the setting you want is 266.

    Not sure why it won't go to 13.5X tho...
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    keto had this to say
    What nobody has mentioned is that 133 fsb using ddr = 266 setting. So, the setting you want is 266.

    Not sure why it won't go to 13.5X tho...

    What do you mean nobody said to use 266? Check it out!
    mtgoat had this to say


    Using the diagram above first look to see which position yours is in right now. If it looks like the one on the RIGHT, change it to look like the one on the LEFT. You want it in the 266/333/400 position.

    I think there is more to this than what Bud has told us so far. We haven't been able to pin him down long enough to work this out.

    BTW Bud

    Welcome to S-M. :wave:

    Maybe you could give us all the details of your system so we know more about what we are dealing with and all your other settings, etc.
  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    no no - I definitely saw your (sage, sound, enlightened, definitive! :D ) advice to move jumper to 266. I was just explaining WHY for Bud, who didn't seem to be educumated on DDR.

    **edit** However, I did edit the post you quoted to reference posts above it. Syntax keto syntax.
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited October 2003
    The details of my system are:
    Asus A7N8X Deluxe w/ XP 2200+
    Volcano 10 heatsink with 80mm tornado
    Lanboy case with 2-80mm fans pc toys
    PNY 512mb 3500 Ram
    Ati Radeon 9000 pro
    Windows Xp
    Maxtor 80Gb and Seagate 40Gb hard drives
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited October 2003
    when i try anything about 12x for multiplier it dies and thats at 133 at 1.65v
  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Check temperatures in bios.
    If over 50C, pull heatsink off and reapply thermal compound (preferrably not generic variety), remount heatsink and while doing so, check for square contact. You can do this by clipping the heatsink on, then immediately removing it and checking the imprint of thermal compound on the bottom of the heatsink.

    Also, while heatsink is off, write down all the info on the top of the computer chip and post it here. We will reference the codes and make sure you bought what you paid for.

    Any chance you have another processor around somewhere that you can test out in that system?

    Haven't looked around but never heard of PNY PC3500 RAM, anyone else familiar with it?

    Speaking of RAM, go into bios and check that RAM/memory ratio is set to 1:1 or (not sure how A7N8X bios reads) 266 MHz. It's possible you have the RAM set too high, though unlikely.

    Did you build the system yourself?
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited October 2003
    I just bought a amd xp 2500 barton from new egg so im hoping its just my cpu
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    I would check the CPU/DRAM ratio as keto said. It should be some form of 1/1 or simmilar. This certainly sounds like somthing in the bios settings for sure and not hardware except maybe memory.

    PNY= Suxors :(

    OPPS, fixed the word ratio from ration.
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited October 2003
    i dunno about the ram its worked good since ive had it
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2003
    Go into the BIOS, load the failsafe defaults.
    Change the FSB speed to 133MHz
    Change no other CPU parameters
    Set up the rest of the BIOS the way you normally would
    Save and exit BIOS.

    It should now be fine.
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