Processor downgraded from 2200 to 1500! Eh...??

[Tiak]

I can scarcely believe what I'm seeing before me, but my Athlon 2200+ is now listed as a miserly 1500+.

The only things I've done to my rig recently are:-

1) Upgrade the mobo driver

2) Add a new stick of RAM

3) Loaded the 'high performance setting' in BIOS, but then had to remove the battery to reset the defaults when I couldnt boot up.

I've taken out the RAM stick, and rolled back the driver. Absolutely no good came of it....

!!!???

Houston, we most definitely have a major ******* problem! :mad:

[saphalline]

Oh this one is easy. Nearly all Socket A mobo's default to the 200 FSB speed. Simply go into your BIOS and move it back up to 266, or 133, however your BIOS has it listed. Problem solved.

[pangea33]

Take into consideration what kind of RAM you're running too. In the event it's PC100, it won't work with a 133/266 mhz FSB. You would need PC133. That's only in the event you're using archaic SDRAM like my pathetic self though. :)

[saphalline]

If the chipset and RAM support it, you can run your FSB and RAM out-of-sync without a problem. In essense, that's what you're doing with any AthlonXP + SDRAM combo, because you've got a 200/266 FSB with RAM that only runs at 100/133. Too bad there wasn't dual-channel SDRAM back then! ;)

[pangea33]

Too bad there wasn't dual-channel SDRAM back then! ;)
Fortunately my mobo also will support PC2100 DDR at 266mhz. I just don't do anything intensive enough to have seen the need yet.

[Tiak]

Heh, before I came back I actually delved deeper into BIOS than I've ever been [which isn't saying much - technical noob that I am], and got things back up to speed after some tinkering.

All quiet on the western front again - Reinstate Defcon 5!

But if I hadn't managed it on my own, the helpful folk in this seat of knowledge would have set me straight, so "thank you".