classic 900

[Phrack]

I just bought a Slot A 900 Athlon. I tried installing it about 30 times and I keep gettting the same response. Nothing. When i boot up nothing happens on the moniter. I mean NOTHING. When i put my old 650 slot a back in it all works fine except for going to the bios and stating that it reset to default because of impropor external cpu frequancy. I have a Asus k7v. I tried resetting the bios to defaut. I tried changeing from jumper freee to manually setting the settings. I've done a lot and nothing seems to happen. I even called tech support to see if i was doing somthing wrong. The guy was clueless and didn't 'know anything though. He said my cpu was fried. I don't know if it is or not. Help would be appriciated.

Specs:
Slot a athlon 650
Geforce 2 mx
soundblaster live xgamer
15 gig western digital
384 sdram (pc133)
Windows 98 SE
Asus K7V (Kx133)

[Murphy]

Phrack (Feb 25, 2001 01:10 p.m.):
I just bought a Slot A 900 Athlon. I tried installing it about 30 times and I keep gettting the same response. Nothing. When i boot up nothing happens on the moniter. I mean NOTHING. When i put my old 650 slot a back in it all works fine except for going to the bios and stating that it reset to default because of impropor external cpu frequancy. I have a Asus k7v. I tried resetting the bios to defaut. I tried changeing from jumper freee to manually setting the settings. I've done a lot and nothing seems to happen. I even called tech support to see if i was doing somthing wrong. The guy was clueless and didn't 'know anything though. He said my cpu was fried. I don't know if it is or not. Help would be appriciated.

Specs:
Slot a athlon 650
Geforce 2 mx
soundblaster live xgamer
15 gig western digital
384 sdram (pc133)
Windows 98 SE
Asus K7V (Kx133)

If you are sure you pushed your 900 in the slot far enough (a mistake I sometimes make, BOTH clips have to click, although, when you still have the cover on) and your comp works with the 650, your CPU is dead indeed. Get a new one soon! The longer you wait, the more trouble the salesman will make!

Brand new athlons have to work immediately when you put them in, if they don't, get them BACK soon from where you've got it!

Below the only 2 things I can think of, but as I read above you've tried already.
Your problem seems like a hardware error on your athlon 900. I've seen you tried setting the FSB manually in the bios already (with 650) and then put in the 900, that would have been my first advice. Are you sure you haven't set voltage manually? 650 requires 1.6V and 900 1.8V, so that could be a problem if you set manual 1.6V, your 900 will NOT run.

[Phrack]

I'm an idiot. It turns out the Kx133 chipset isn't compatable with the slot A Athlon Thunderbird. I really should have done my research before spending. I guess i'll try to sell it on Ebay.

[Angry]

HUH?

[diehrd]

What is that the chipset not compatable LMAO,What is that slot based on the 266 FSB HA HA ha.

Your processor is bad or you have something set wronk I bet it is the L2 cache which you have @1/2 by default,set it to 1/3 with old processor in and shutdown and slap the 900 in there.

[Phrack]

I read in a FAQ that the chipset was not compatible. I'll setting the L2 cache to 1/3 though and see what happens.

[stool]

Did you get it new or used? I have a 900 Slot A, that I had put a GlobalWin VOS32 on, and the weight of it has caused it to not make good contact with the slot over time. Now, it will only work sometimes, with the stock HSF. If you have access to another mobo, give that a try.

[diehrd]

I sent you an email You for sure have The L2 cache problem update bios set the L2 to 1/3 reinstall the 900 reboot

[Murphy]

I was wondering if there was any news on the compatibility between slot-A thunderbird and k7v with kx133 chipset. I see Diehrd had some idea's on fixing it. I wasn't aware of any conflict between the hardware. Does any of you have links about this subject, or know anything more than I do?

This because shifting to Slot-A thunderbird might be an option for me.
Thanks

[Murphy]

I've done some research and came to the following conclusion:
With the K7V you can only run Slot-A T-birds up to 800MHz, beyond that, you will need the K7V-T or to do the K7V=>K7V-T mod.

http://www.k7v.com/forum/k7v/

This is the general forum of k7v.com, where i found much info, some links to tomshardware with how-to links. So if you want to run that 900 T-bird.

Some people got their bird running with crazy **** like 3.5V VIO and 110FSB. The problem with the slot-A thunderbirds is that there is a little difference inside, which couses timing issues. This is where the mod comes in to fix it.

But be warned, what I concluded for this moment is that not everyone who has tried has succeeded in getting his (maybe even her) T-bird stable, the modding is very delicate.