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[diddydo75]

hi
have just flashed the latest cheepoman bios and all seems well...hurrah!
i now have some fsb options,so just 1 question.
when looking at the bios i see the setting looks like this 133/133
i know that one off them is the memory speed,but which one? and is the other a setting for the bus speed off the cpu.as i can change them both i thought i should know what i'm doing.
their both running at 147/147 at the moment. now says my 1333 athlon is at 1450 now.
any advice is greatly recieved.
did

 

[AllenSmoker]

fsb/memory.
almost all of the settings run the front side bus and the memory at the same speed.

 

[diddydo75]

nice one
thankyou.
have also tried it at 150/150 but it wouldnt finish booting.

 

[diddydo75]

have noticed that some people have had a problem with the xp2400 in this board. is the 2200 giving this hassle aswell?
i'd take the slower chip if i thought i would have less problems or is it just a lottery. i dont really want to buy a new motherboard yet so this will be the last upgrade to this system before i build another.

 

[7keys]

It seems to only have problems with the 2400+.

 

[diddydo75]

think i'll just get the 2200 then. cheers

 

[diddydo75]

well the 2200 is on the way with another 256megs ram and some rounded cables......i hope it all goes in ok,will keep you posted.
thanks for the help people!
did

 

[N-Bandit]

where an I get this cheepoman bios? I want I want Iwant.

Mike

 

[diddydo75]

try here bandit.
cheepoman bios
hope this helps.
if its dead or dont work pm me and i'll email the bios and the flash utility to you.
did

 

[N-Bandit]

thanks. got it now If I can just flash the Bios with out it crapping out on me.

Mike

 

[JDXNC]

I ran my 2100 in a K7S5A for abot 4 months at 2.2Ghz with no problems, I did it by pin modding it to a higher vcore and multi.

 

[N-Bandit]

well I just flashed my bios with teh Cheepoman bios, and changed my settngs to 150/150 just to see if it would boot. It does, but everything still says my processor is running at 1.33 What gives? I have tried all the availible settings but nothing changes. why? I am using CPUZ to give me the CPU speed.

the only change that CPUZ is reporting is that my voltage is now 1.808 rather than 1.792.

Mike

 

[diddydo75]

weird that! when i change to a higher setting my cpu speed changes??
does it still say 1.33 when you boot up right at the start?

 

[N-Bandit]

yes it does. thisis odd. I powered off for about 1 hour, and when I re-booted CPUZ reports cpu speed at 1462.5

thats what I want to see, but then I had to re-boot due to windows updates, and now it is back to 1333. I checked the bios and it isstill set at 150/150. Maybe I got a bad flash? it works but just not everything is functional? I might give the HoneyX bios a try and see if I can change my speed with that.

Mike

By the way, Sorry about jumping into your post with my problems.

 

[diddydo75]

no problem, if you try the Honeyx bios let me know how you get on.
And if it has any features over the cheepoman bios.
did

 

[N-Bandit]

well havent tried the HoneyX bios yet. I have a new problem.... Every time I re-start my PC I get a message that Windows has recovered from a serious error. when I send the report, it analyses it and says that it is a driver based crash. the only new thing that I have added to my system before this happened is my new Sound Card, the Audigy 2.. any one know if there are any conflicts with this board and that card??

ike