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Abit NF7-S2 and Mobile Barton 2600+ problems

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William

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I have a relatively new Abit NF7-S2 motherboard that won't recognze my brand new Barton 2600+ CPU. It currently says that the multiplier for the CPU is 6, when it should be 15. The beauty of my board is that I can't change the CPU multiplier in the bios, or if I can, I haven't found out how to yet. Would love any ideas. I have the CPU at 800mhz right now.
 
Yes and yes. That wasn't the issue really though. I had to cross some pins with wire to get a decent multiplier. Turns out this board only gets the 6x multiplier, and since you can't change the mutliplier in the bios, your somewhat stuck. I got the wire in there and its working great right now. I am at 2ghz, though I will later do some fiddling with the ram and what not and begin some overclocking on it.
 
I have the same board and cpu. Just scroll down in the Multiplier section of the bios to "User Defiine". It is at the bottom, so alot of newcomers to the NF7-S dont see that.
 
He does not have the Nf7-S he has the Nf7-S2 which is a totally different board. Most likly you will need to do a bunch of wire mods to get your multi where you want it. Good luck with that board.
 
This clip from user reviews at newegg:

"This is a awesome board for the price no stupid options no one uses anyway. It has sata, new bios update lets you use cas 2 supposedly nforce2 chipsets have unresolved issues @Cas2 thats why they left it out along with the multipler since their all locked now any way (except for the mobiles) so no big deal it oced my locked barton to 2.41 when the nf7 s v2 would only get it to 2.2 so i think this is the final socket a mobo to deal with the locked multis and it works great."

They didn't say what Barton, but they claim the board is a good OC'er. When I tried a 2400 Mobil on my V2 it confused the BIOS and told me something wierd, but I paid it no mind, used "User Defined" and set my multi and FSB where I wanted it, kicked the vCore up a notch and OC's like a champ.
 
Unfortunately, this board doesn't allow me to change the multiplier at all. I can change FSB and voltages, but not the multiplier. It was reading a multiplier of 6 which I believe is was the the L2(L3?) bridges set all mobiles to default with.

I simply put a single piece of telephone wire into the correct two holes and have a 12x multiplier right now with 166mhz FSB. That gives me a 2700+ PR rating. I know I can get mine up to about 2400-2700mhz, but I need to get some newer RAM. Anyways, the wire trick was a tad tricky to get something so small into the holes which aren't large, but I got it in.
 
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