[vox-tech] Athlon (was Hardware Question)

[Rod Roark]

I don't use ECS boards, but check this:

http://forum.ocworkbench.com/ocwbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=27&t=001070

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

On Thursday 28 March 2002 08:05, Stephen M. Helms wrote:
> Since everyone is mentioning performance with Athlon's this brings up a
> question I had.  This past weekend I purchased two Athlon XP 1700 an ECS
> K75SA motherboard (with 256MB DDR2100 Kingston memory), and an ECS K7SEM
> motherboard (with 256MB + 128 MB PC133 SDRAM).
>
> I put the motherboards into existing cases as replacement motherboards.
>  When the system boots (both systems) the BIOS defaults to recognizing
> the cpu as an Athlon 1100MHZ.  I changed the BIOS setting for the bus
> from 100MHZ/100MHZ (memory bus/processor bus) to 133MHZ/133MHZ.  The
> BIOS then shows correctly on boot as an Athlon XP 1700 (running at
> 1467MHZ).
>
> The problem is when it is set to 1100MHZ everything boots up fine.  When
> I boot to what should be the correct setting of 1467MHZ the system does
> not run properly with programs crashing and blue screens.  OK so right
> now both system are running Windows 98 (One is for my father in-law and
> one is for my wife).
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Stephen
>
> P.S.  The K75SA system is using a 8.4 GB hard drive and the K7SEM is
> using a 3.2 GB hard drive, so I am not sure if it is possibly a hard
> drive timing issue or not, since they are only umda33.
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