help please

[Morgoth]

ive got a Amd Abit KT7A motherboard and i used to have an Amd Athlon 1.3gb processor but recently i bought and installed a Amd Athlon XP 2600+ processor and although it works it says on loadup its and unknown CPU type and is being run at 1200mhz instead of its standard 2.13mhz speed which is annoying could someone help me to configure it please

[Murf]

Did you get into the BIOS Softmenu

With ABIT unique technology SoftMenuTM users can adjust and change the CPU settings without opening the computer chassis, just enter the BIOS setup and do it. Via ABIT SoftMenuTM users can adjust CPU, DDR, AGP slot voltage and frequency to get a ultimate performance platform.

[Morgoth]

Originally Posted by Murf

Did you get into the BIOS Softmenu

With ABIT unique technology SoftMenuTM users can adjust and change the CPU settings without opening the computer chassis, just enter the BIOS setup and do it. Via ABIT SoftMenuTM users can adjust CPU, DDR, AGP slot voltage and frequency to get a ultimate performance platform.

Not quite sure how to old chap + in the softmenu section it only goes up to 1400mhz because at the time i got my computer the 1.3gbz processor was the latest one, ive heard you might have to perform a flash or something because of the way XP processors communicate with the pc differently than the old AMD Athlons

[Morgoth]

Originally Posted by Morgoth

Not quite sure how to old chap + in the softmenu section it only goes up to 1400mhz because at the time i got my computer the 1.3gbz processor was the latest one, ive heard you might have to perform a flash or something because of the way XP processors communicate with the pc differently than the old AMD Athlons

Just one more point when i bought my new processor they gave me good instructions to put processor in my PC but no instructions as to what bios,softmenu or anything else should be set as so im stumped please help, thanks

[Murf]

I don't know anything about that particular motherboard, not sure it will support the processor your trying to put in. I need to research, maybe someone that knows that board will come along. Otherwise, will come back if I find something. The documentation you have says it will support that processor?

I went HERE and it does not show that motherboard supporting that processor.

[Morgoth]

Originally Posted by Murf

I don't know anything about that particular motherboard, not sure it will support the processor your trying to put in. I need to research, maybe someone that knows that board will come along. Otherwise, will come back if I find something. The documentation you have says it will support that processor?

I went HERE and it does not show that motherboard supporting that processor.

But the PC is still running fine and notably faster even though its still says at start up unknown processor surely if a motherboard didnt support the processor i would not be here writing this on my PC cos it wouldnt work i mean everything works videos,games music everything works fine its just not recognising my processor correctly also the place i bought it which was watford savastore says that it will work on any motherboard with an A Socket and there right in that respect its just id like it configured properly also with your comment about my hard drive reading problem ive a geforce 4 Ti 200 which has 128k DDR memory i have 512k system memory + the processor has a L2 cache or 256k memory so i dont think the memory would be the problem.

[Murf]

The AthlonXP is available in two versions:

Athlon XP 2600+. (333MHz FSB) 2.083GHz ..... 12.5 x 166
Athlon XP 2600+..... 2.13GHz ..... 16 x 133

Do you know what version you have?

Setting the processor speed only entails setting the FSB x the multiplier.

I pretty sure you use the Softmenu to make these adjustments. e.g. 16 x 133