I have been reading SOLID for about a week now, the story goes a little like this....
Have a K7S5A v3.1 with 021029.ROM (Latest official BIOS)
Recently Purchased a THOROUGHBRED ATHLON XP 2400+ CPU
Recently Purchased a PNY 256MB DDR RAM PC2100
'Stuck em in' the appropriate slots and hey presto...
BIOS sees an Athlon XP 1800+
Read a few forums and learn to set the FSB in the BIOS to the available 133/133. Apparently this board supports it, so why not.
Machine will not boot at this speed.
Go through the steps of reseating the SiS735 chipset heatsink and using nice compound instead of the double sided tape. Still no play..
I have a large heatsink and Coolermaster fan flowing on the CPU so i do not think that is too hot. I have seen forums posting hoster CPU temps than mine.
I have tried cheepoman's bios and managed to get the machine booting at 124/124 giving 2200+ plus I saw totally random lockups when booted, so I chose to go back to safe.
My computer will run at 100/133 but games don't seem to like that and again some lockups experienced so far.
I believe that this chipset does not like these to be running at different speeds..
There you go...
What I would like to know if what specifically is stopping my system from allowing a 133/133 setting? Thats the annoying thing, just not working at all at this mode is pants. It could at least give me a clue
I do not want to mess around with the Vcore settings and be scratching up my CPU to join bridges and that, I just want what I paid for...
P.S. Before you say it, I know the K7S5A isn't a clocking board and I know it's cheap, but it still should what it says on the tin?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Have a K7S5A v3.1 with 021029.ROM (Latest official BIOS)
Recently Purchased a THOROUGHBRED ATHLON XP 2400+ CPU
Recently Purchased a PNY 256MB DDR RAM PC2100
'Stuck em in' the appropriate slots and hey presto...
BIOS sees an Athlon XP 1800+
Read a few forums and learn to set the FSB in the BIOS to the available 133/133. Apparently this board supports it, so why not.
Machine will not boot at this speed.
Go through the steps of reseating the SiS735 chipset heatsink and using nice compound instead of the double sided tape. Still no play..
I have a large heatsink and Coolermaster fan flowing on the CPU so i do not think that is too hot. I have seen forums posting hoster CPU temps than mine.
I have tried cheepoman's bios and managed to get the machine booting at 124/124 giving 2200+ plus I saw totally random lockups when booted, so I chose to go back to safe.
My computer will run at 100/133 but games don't seem to like that and again some lockups experienced so far.
I believe that this chipset does not like these to be running at different speeds..
There you go...
What I would like to know if what specifically is stopping my system from allowing a 133/133 setting? Thats the annoying thing, just not working at all at this mode is pants. It could at least give me a clue
I do not want to mess around with the Vcore settings and be scratching up my CPU to join bridges and that, I just want what I paid for...
P.S. Before you say it, I know the K7S5A isn't a clocking board and I know it's cheap, but it still should what it says on the tin?
Any help would be much appreciated.