bigsinky

bought one of these about 9 months ago and was told it was a 333MHz mobo. at the time i also bought an xp1800 processor and 1gig of pc2100 ram. with cpu prices tumbling, this week i bought a xp 2500 barton with a 333FSB and 1 gig of PC2700 ram. the ram works spot on but i am getting an unrecognised cpu on the board. tried a few things including setting cpu parameters manually with softmenu3. i have the latest version of the bios software(22/8/02) but the board refuses to recognise the new chip. i am currently running the chip as an unrecognised 1400mhz chip. if i remember rightly the xp1800 runs at 1.53 Ghz so at the mo i am actually worse off speed wise.

Anyone any ideas or am i gonna have to fork out for one of the new nforce boards that abit do. i have used abit boards for a while now but if someone could recommend another make that would do my job as well as being future proof(well as future proof as it can be) i would appeciate it.

cheers

big sinky

[Edited by bigsinky - 11/07/2003 19:46:41]

Mr.Cookie

if i read abit's site right it only supports 200 and 266mhz processors, have you tried manually setting multiplier and fsb in bios to say 13.5 and a 133 fsb which is close to what xp2500 (1.83) runs at.

Si

JohnnyRob

Good advice on running the chip on the lesser settings, bummer if the board won't support 333fsb; if that's the case running the board at lesser FSB is the only option.

I've said before and will say it again , although I've heard very
good things about Abit boards (have no experience, tho), I'd always recommend Asus boards.

I'm running an Asus A78VX board with a XP1700+ Thoro B chip at 2.08ghz....
The Nforce range of Asus boards will be the basis for my next build, no doubt.

Just a thought - but have you cleared the CMOS? If not flick the jumper and then try the new chip. Had a similar problem with a XP1600 chip upgrade on a PCHipps board - system wouldn't get to POST. After Resetting the CMOS the board booted up no worries recognising the upgraded CPU...

[Edited by JohnnyRob - 11/07/2003 22:04:44]

P1_scooby

you might also want to check that your running the latest bios revision on the board..

2nd the recommendation on asus boards.. have used a few a7n8x ones.. and had no probs.. very nice.