Athlon XP 1900+ Rading OC incorrectly

[df0xyd]

-TYPO (Title says rading, instead of Reading)

*****
Well, I'm a genius, lol...
The reason it won't show right, is because I didn't unlock the cpu...
Anyone know how I can unlock it?
*****


Hey guys,

I'm trying to make a friend of mine a low-end gaming computer with spare parts I had lying around.

Abit NF7
Athlon XP 1900+ (Palomino {I think})
FX5200 OC 275|425
256MB RAM

Anyways, I flashed the bios, and did a fresh install of XP. At first I didn't really pay attention, bu windows was reading the CPU as 1.1GHz. I just figured it was a glitch because I hadn't restarted the computer after installing the drivers yet. So, I restarted, went ahead to bios to give the cpu a nice little overclock of 12X150. Went into XP and it's reading as 1.2GHz.....

Any Thoughts?

 

[Niku-Sama]

my thought is that NF7 boards are crap, there one dieing a slow death in the other room, its never been right even since after an RMA and got a different replacment

 

[ps2cho]

my thought is that NF7 boards are crap, there one dieing a slow death in the other room, its never been right even since after an RMA and got a different replacment

The NF7 was basically one of the best Socket A motherboard ever made. It was rivaled by the DFI Lanparty board.
I had one that pushed my XP 2000+ to 2.3GHz!

 

[Niku-Sama]

i liked my Ultra Infinity alot but i still stick to my above statement. after RMA-ing one and got a ver.2 it still had issues. the only other board i had that was as bad is asus

 

[glussier]

You probably were not lucky. I have 2 nf7 v2 motherboards which have been both running Bartons 2500+@2300mhz since 2003 24/7, and I never had a problem with any of them.

 

[df0xyd]

The NF7 was basically one of the best Socket A motherboard ever made. It was rivaled by the DFI Lanparty board.
I had one that pushed my XP 2000+ to 2.3GHz!

Since you overclocked the Athlon XP, do you remember how to unlock it?
It's locked at 12X133 (I think)

 

[jiggamanjb]

-TYPO (Title says rading, instead of Reading)

*****
Well, I'm a genius, lol...
The reason it won't show right, is because I didn't unlock the cpu...
Anyone know how I can unlock it?
*****

Any Thoughts?

http://www.overclockers.com/tips693/

my thought is that NF7 boards are crap, there one dieing a slow death in the other room, its never been right even since after an RMA and got a different replacment

You have got to be joking! I think you'd be hard pressed to find ANYONE to agree with you.

 

[JigPu]

Another OCing possibility would be to pin mod the socket as shown here. No unlocking involved (but it is a pain in the butt to change the OC ).

I had to use this trick to get my 2500+ Barton working in my mobo. I've got a Shuttle AK31a, which was produced way back in the days of the Thunderbird and Palomino and doesn't have high enough multipliers available in the BIOS

JigPu