I fixed my FSB problem!!

[Mitchcore]

Hey everybody. I've been seeing a lot of people suffering from this problem. I could only run my Athlon xp at a 100 FSB setting heres what I did to fix it: I tried making sure I had the latest agp drivers, that didn't work, so I made sure I had the latest bios for my ECS K7S5A and that didn't work either, so then I tried putting a fan on my mobo chipset and still nothing. Next i formatted and took win XP off, and tried win98. still no luck and then I fixed it. I shutdown, took my fan off of my cpu, took my cpu out and just re-sat it and put plenty of thermal paste on and I put it on nice and even ( I wouldn't suggest putting on a whole lot of thermal grease, just make sure it is on evenly and you don't move it all to one side when you put the fam back on), then i hooked my fan back on, booted up, set my FSB to 133 and VIOLA!! it worked.

I hope this works for the rest of you folks! good luck!!!!!!

[azhari]

Great job man. Way to go.

Just out of curiousity, do you know what your temps were before and after reapplying the thermal paste?

[Mitchcore]

I'll get back to you on that one. I was getting temps between 55-60 Celcius and now its about 45 Celcius, but I think that has more to do with the fact that the heat in our apartment is broken, so I'll let you know when they heat is working again.