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Jumper settings 1.33GHz Athlon C on A7M266

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mwgorecki   04-08-2001 at 04:32:21 PM

Does anyone know what the motherboard jumpers should be set at for the Asus A7M266 with a 1.33 GHz Athlon C attached?

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Sigma   04-08-2001 at 06:20:27 PM
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i'm building the same system, well my chip is the 1.2gig athlon c @255fsb. i'm using the same mobo as well. i'm using the jumperless feature which that mobo offers, YOu can use the jumperless feature of that motherboard by just leaving all dip switches set to their default, which i think is all to 3 and 4, you have to look in the manuall. but you should set your clock multiplier to 10 adn your external cpu to 133 which will give you an effective fsb of 266. this is what im doing using the jumperless feature of that mobo. I hope what i said helps.

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hmg57   04-08-2001 at 09:33:36 PM
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All these informations are in your manual. You can also find 'em at www.asus.com. Everything is well explained.

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mwgorecki   04-08-2001 at 10:21:12 PM
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I will not have the board until Tuesday, but wanted to make sure I was ready to go when it arrived. Since the 1.33 GHz CPU Is so new, I was not sure the settings would be in the manual. I downloaded the pdf manual from Asus some time ago, but did not see it in there.

sz

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hmg57   04-08-2001 at 11:14:56 PM
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Well, maybe this pdf is not as good as the one on the A7V133. I'm really surprised that it's not in it (pdf) cause ASUS is known for its great and complete manuals. Anyway, I'll take a look on Asus.com and give you some news if I find something for you.

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mwgorecki   04-08-2001 at 11:30:03 PM
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I hope so too. I am not anticipating any problems, and will try the jumperless feature first. I just wanted to know where to go next if jumperless did not work. I think I remember the pdf file saying the 1.1 and 1.2 settings are the same. That is what originally prompted this question.

sz

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hmg57   04-08-2001 at 11:38:24 PM
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Hummm, I've read your manual and I have to agree that there's not much information on how to modify the FSB and multiplier. They don't even mention how the set the multiplier... maybe the 1.33 had not hit the shelves when they wrote this manual. Sorry but I think I can't help you.
Try sending an e-mail to asus support team if nobody can help you here. Good luck !

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mwgorecki   04-09-2001 at 05:00:46 AM
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Already e-mailed them - waiting for a reply. Perhaps there will be an ammendment to the manual....

sz

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mwgorecki   04-09-2001 at 03:47:26 PM
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I got a reply from Asus in one day!

Dear Customer,

Thanks for choosing ASUSTeK.

You can set the jumpers as 1.2GHz Athlon. You can set the CPU External Frequency to 133MHz, and you needn't set the Multiplier. If any future problem, please feel free let us know.

Best Regards,

ASUS Customer Service Center Shanghai
ASUS Web site : <http://www.asus.com.tw>
ASUS Ftp site : <ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw>
ASUS Knowledge Base : <http://knowledge.asus.com.tw>
ASUS NetQ : <http://www.asusnetq.com.tw>


sz

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hmg57   04-09-2001 at 11:24:55 PM
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What they're telling you is that the settings are the same for the 1.33 and the 1.2 ??? Hummm, don't know how that's possible. Anyway, if that's what they told you...

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chrisojeda   04-10-2001 at 05:20:20 AM
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According to anandtech.com the Asus A7M266 does not allow you to adjust the clock multiplier:

"The A7V133, ASUS' KT133A based offering, does have multiplier adjustment available through the BIOS unfortunately the same cannot be said about the A7M266 and A7A266. Hopefully later revisions of these boards will have the settings but for whatever reasons the current revisions do not. It could be pressure by AMD that is forcing ASUS to remove multiplier control from the A7M266 board that happens to be based on an AMD chipset, however this is highly unlikely since AMD has already informed us that they do not plan on preventing users from overclocking their CPUs through the use of the "bridges" present on the surface of the chip."

Don't you think that is a major disadvantage for overclockers?

It worked yesterday! :lol:

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mwgorecki   04-10-2001 at 05:25:53 AM
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According to the e-mail and the pdf manual I downloaded from Asus, the 1.1, 1.2, <b>AND</b> 1.3 all have the same settings....

sz

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Sigma   04-10-2001 at 06:02:35 AM
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according to the manual, you can adjust the multiplier through the jumpersless feature of the a7m26 mobo. I dont know about altering it tyhough to paramaters which aren't supported by the chip. but i know that me/i running a 1.2 athlon c @ 266 requuires the clock multiple to be set to nine along with setting the the external cpu to 133. I've read a review where the 1.2 gig 266 atholons were limited to overclocking, but the 200 mhz fsp athlons were not, they were able to tweak the fsb to bet the chip up to 1.4 however this could not be done with the athlon c chips. so if you want to overclock i guess its best to go with an older line of chip.

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hmg57   04-10-2001 at 06:26:15 AM
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What the hell r u talkin' about. I would really like to know what prevents you from rising the clock multiplier when you have a good fan. And for the FSB, I still don't know why you can't change it. Links please

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Sigma   04-10-2001 at 06:32:36 AM
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i never said you cant raise the clock multiplier! I just said that the 200mhz athlons were more amenable to overclocking, and the 266fsb athlons weren't all that cooperative.

http://www.gotapex.com/reviews.php [...] index.html

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hmg57   04-10-2001 at 07:17:13 AM
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I've read your review but these guys may have fell on "bad" C Athlons. Anyway, it's possible that they are less overclockable but they do benefit from the 266MHz FSB. Anyway, if any of you has ever overclocked an Athlon 'C', please send in your comments or results as it is the CPU I'll get in a few weeks. Thanks

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