Couple 'o newbie questions (BIOS won't listen to me!!)

[CoreyGH]

I have a Tyan Tsunami S1846s with 440BX chipset using AIMBIOS ver. 1.16 running a PIII 450 (slot 1) In my BIOS I can change the CPU Bus frequency (Im assuming thats the same as the Front Side Bus) normally it runs at 100MHz. I tried running it at 112MHz - no problem, at boot up it says I have a PIII 500. Tried it at 133MHz some probs but it ran saying I had at PIII 600. The BIOS also would let me select 124, when I boot up it would tell me I had a PIII 550. Here's the problem: In windows I would run a program called WCPUID ver3 which would tell me what the internal clock, system clock, and multiplier were. Well, it would concur with the BIOS settings at 112 and 133 but when I set 124 in the BIOS, WCPUID would tell me it was running at 83.3 MHz (resulting system performance decreases concur with WCPUID) anyone know why I can't set it to 124?

Also, i tried using SoftFSB, a little windows program that lets you change the FSB from within Windows without rebooting. It doesn't even give me 124 as an option, goes straight from 112 to 133.3.

Course this all wouldn't be a problem if I could run stable at 133.3 There's just one small problem with running at that speed, my NIC doesn't seem to like it (have an external cable modem). I don't get any errors, it's just that no windows apps will connect ( AIM, ICQ can't browse the web) untill I bring the FSB back down. The NIC is a D-Link DFE-530TX 10/100. Any ideas on how I might run at 133 and make my NIC happy? Different slot? More fans? (I've heard some PCI cards don't like it when the PCI bus goes above 40MHz. 133.3 sends my PCI bus to 44.4. Is it possible to change the PCI multiplyer?)

Last question (sorry for the length). I'm thinking of getting a PIII 1GHz but, of course, my current board won't support it cause it's a slot 1 not a socket 370. How would I go about finding out if my board could handle a PIII 1GHz and a slocket? Tyan's website was no help.

Ok, if you sat through all that, I thank you. If you've got some ideas for me, I would really apreciate the help.

[Bobby]

The only thing that I can help you on unfortunatly is the motherboard problem. First of if your mother board handles a 133mhz FSB you have no need in buying another mohter board. They do make Slot 1 PIII 1Gig chips. They are a little more pricy, 10-15 dollars more, but no where near the amount you will spend an a new Motherboard. Also they do make a adapter that goes from Slot 1 to 370 if you would rather go that route. They sell for under 10 dollars most places and will handle a 133mhz FSB. The only reason I can see you buying another motherboard is if you really just want one. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

[CoreyGH]

Thanks for the info, course i'll have to resolve the NIC problems to go to 133.

[spell]

well, on my old Shuttle HOT-661 mainboard, it had TWO 133FSB settings. one set the pci bus @40something mhz, and the 2nd one set it @33.3mhz. try cycling through the entire selection in the SYSTEM BIOS, not SoftFSB.

[Stealth]

this may or my not be helpfull, on my mobo i have the option of running my pci bus @ 1\2 1\3 1\4 if your pci bus is at 44 then you are set to 1\3 if tou can chang this to 1\4 it will take you pci bus back down to 33 where it should be, and your prob with cpuid, have you moved the icon on to your desktop from it's origonal location, if so this will post inaccurate resualts. hope this was helpful to you

[CoreyGH]

Thanks for the info, unfortunately I don't think I can change the PCI bus multiplier in the BIOS, i looked all over.