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| 220679 | 2004-03-06 22:54:00 | When starting up my new PC the POST screen shows my memory running at 200 MHZ,the processor is a XP 2500 Athlon which is shown correctly,the FSB should be 333 MHZ,the RAM is DDR 400 PC3200,there are no jumper settings on the motherboard for speeds,do I need to do a manual setting in the BIOS to reflect these components,the install book say leave default ( motherboard ECS N2U400-A ) any help, John. |
john r (782) | ||
| 220680 | 2004-03-07 00:02:00 | with most boards theres normally a jumper to select fsb speeds tho it could be a bios setting (i'm not sure with that board). 200mhz is usually default. consult the manaul. yu will need to set it to suit the cpu. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 220681 | 2004-03-07 00:36:00 | Thanks Tweak'e, There is a setting in the BIOS ( advanced chipset features) which has the FSB as a number ( not default or optimal ) I can try and adjust it to 333 MHZ.it looks like you can set FSB speed and RAM speed and the it works out and gives a " resulting frequency " further down the same page. Cheers, John. |
john r (782) | ||
| 220682 | 2004-03-07 00:43:00 | Go into your BIOS, Click on "advanced cipset features" and there is a listing for "FSB Frequency" which you can change to 166. | Pheonix (280) | ||
| 220683 | 2004-03-07 04:02:00 | whats your problem? are you wanting to slow the ram down to match your fsb,or are you thinking at 200mhz its displayed incorrectly? |
metla (154) | ||
| 220684 | 2004-03-07 04:16:00 | Your clock speed for the AMD 2500 should be set to 166Mhz Not 200Mhz as this creats a FSB or 400Mhz and the 2500 is only a 333Mhz FSB CPU. Having the setting at 300 is overclocking the cpu and may result in damaging it if you don't have adequit cooling inplace. | Odin (227) | ||
| 220685 | 2004-03-07 04:17:00 | Bah screwed up :D the 300 should say 200 Do'h | Odin (227) | ||
| 220686 | 2004-03-07 04:19:00 | The cpu speed is reported correcty thus it isnt overclocked,the 200mhz just means his ram is running at 2x200mhz,hence ddr400. I cant see what teh problem is. |
metla (154) | ||
| 220687 | 2004-03-07 08:06:00 | thank you all for your input I have set FSB to 166 from 100,the result is still 200 MHZ on the startup POST but from your input I am happy to leave it as is. John. |
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