My guess is the powersupply isn't up to the task. On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 08:05:30AM -0800, Stephen M. Helms wrote: > Since everyone is mentioning performance with Athlon's this brings up a > question I had. This past weekend I purchased two Athlon XP 1700 an ECS > K75SA motherboard (with 256MB DDR2100 Kingston memory), and an ECS K7SEM > motherboard (with 256MB + 128 MB PC133 SDRAM). > > I put the motherboards into existing cases as replacement motherboards. > When the system boots (both systems) the BIOS defaults to recognizing > the cpu as an Athlon 1100MHZ. I changed the BIOS setting for the bus > from 100MHZ/100MHZ (memory bus/processor bus) to 133MHZ/133MHZ. The > BIOS then shows correctly on boot as an Athlon XP 1700 (running at 1467MHZ). > > The problem is when it is set to 1100MHZ everything boots up fine. When > I boot to what should be the correct setting of 1467MHZ the system does > not run properly with programs crashing and blue screens. OK so right > now both system are running Windows 98 (One is for my father in-law and > one is for my wife). > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Stephen > > P.S. The K75SA system is using a 8.4 GB hard drive and the K7SEM is > using a 3.2 GB hard drive, so I am not sure if it is possibly a hard > drive timing issue or not, since they are only umda33. > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
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