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| Thread ID: 37278 | 2003-09-02 20:41:00 | changing the fsb | jimdickin (856) | Press F1 |
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| 172623 | 2003-09-02 20:41:00 | It now loooks like I have to change the FSB from 100mhz to 133mhz to gain full processor speed for my motherboard (unless I was sold a dud in the first place?) . The setting to alter the fsb in the bios is greyed out and does not appear to be alterable, I can find no refereence to altering the fsb in my motherboard manual in fact nothing further than the "BIOS utility can detect the system memory automatically"-. However, this does not appear to be working. My motherboard Is a shuttle AK38n, I have 512mb ddr ram with an athlon 2000xp processor only showing 1.25 ghz. Thanks for all the help I hopoe to have this computer running to its full capabilities soon. cheers jim |
jimdickin (856) | ||
| 172624 | 2003-09-02 21:51:00 | Get your motherboard manual out and have a look for a jumper setting which allows free change to the FSB. Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 172625 | 2003-09-02 21:51:00 | Or take it back to where you bought it from and they should do it for you for free. Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 172626 | 2003-09-02 23:49:00 | Hi. Look in your manual for Manually setting the CPU frequency by jumper setting. JP6 is the jumper and for 133MHz setting you want it off, ie, no jumper fitted. Because the board has automatic frequency setting, I suspect that someone has set it manually to 100MHz, overiding the auto feature. JP6 is found to the left of the VIA chipset which is between the CPU and AGP slot. If you don't have the manual handy download it from here (www.shuttle.com) pages 24 & 28. Another option may be to clear CMOS to reset your BIOS to the factory defaults but, we wont go there unless the jumper setting doesn't work. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 172627 | 2003-09-03 10:17:00 | thank you murray that is excellent I have got the manual to hand so it al makes sense. Its not worth me putting it to 166 mhz is it? cheers jim |
jimdickin (856) | ||
| 172628 | 2003-09-03 10:52:00 | That would be overclocking it putting it up that high. | DMcKenzie (4203) | ||
| 172629 | 2003-09-03 14:08:00 | Thats great. 133MHz is where you want it. If you want to clock it there are other factors you want to look at so some digestion of the techniques would be required. Personally I don't think the risk is worth it, but it depends what interests you re computers. Get it up and running and stable first, it will also pay to solve the BIOS thing as well plus thats where a lot of clocking is done from these days. Cheers Murray P |
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