Ok on my old computer I had an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ on a Matsonic MS8137C+...well that is what I thought it was. That is what it said it was on Boot.

Now I have changed the motherboard to a Gigabyte 7VT600P-RZ(-C)

On boot it says that an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ is plugged in. Why....and how. Is it a bios setting and which motherboard got it wrong. Is there a way to properly find out what it is (bought it from a shop and can't find out from them).

Any help would be great. Thanks very much

Ironfistchamp

Can't you look onto the Athlon chip? Isn't there a label?

Well who would have thought it...I do have an XP 2400....*whistles* wow did not know that.

So why did my old mobo think it was an 1800+?


Thanx very much

You must have had your timings set too low or to default. Possibly you set your clock to 100mhz if you were using pc-100 ram and you should have set it to 133 so the processor was affected and not the memory. There should be 2 places to set, one for memory and the other for the processor.

Ooh thank you very much. It was a shop bought PC so you would have thought that they would get it right.

Well I'm glad we have that sorted. Now if I can just get an operating system on it we shall be in business so to speak.

Thanx again for your help


Ironfistchamp

The shop underclocked it? That's too weird...

Yeh tis..... I know alot of people who say they are crooked and that you should never buy from them. It is ok because I build my own systems now.

Thanx again