Puzzled by my CPU

[ClareCrossland]

I have recently built a pc using a gigabyte motherboard (GA-6BXE) and a PIII-600MHz cpu.

To get the PIII CPU to work I had to flash the motherboard bios to the latest level with a borrowed PII 450 CPU.

Now the pc works like a dream - almost. Unfortunately, the CPU is repotring in as a PIII 450 instead of 600MHz. I have checked and double checked the switches on the motherboard and these are correct for a PIII 600. I have also tried changing them to eg. a PIII 500 but whatever the switches are set to it still thinks it is a PIII 450MHz.

I have looked through the bios but can't find any way of changing the multiplier etc in there.

I have since flashed the bios again with an even later level (beta code) thinking that perhaps it picked up the cpu details at bios flash time but no change.

I have hunted through the giga-byte website and sent them an e-mail
(no reply).....

Can anyone shed any light for me ???

[mjc]

Sandra (http://www.sisoftware.demon.co.uk/sandra/start.htm) may have better luck reporting the speed, some BIOS' do not properly report it, especially those that were not originally made for higher speed processors (like anything over 450 or whatever the upper limit was before you flashed the BIOS).

Intel processors (most of them) are multiplier locked so any BIOS seting for a multiplier is ignored.

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