Athlon and CPU speed?

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Hello,

I have an Athlon 1700+ and ECS K755A motherboard.

When it boots up the black screen and Sisoft Sandra say the chip is an
1100 Mhz cpu. Shouldn't it be 1700 or at least higher than 1100?


SiSoftware Sandra Bios info

General Information
Manufacturer : American Megatrends Inc.
Version : 07.00T
Date : 04/02/01
Plug & Play Version : 1.00
SMBIOS/DMI Version : 2.30
(EE)PROM Size : 256kB (2Mbit)

SiSoftware Sandra CPU

Processor(s)
Model : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
Co-Processor (FPU) : Built-in
Speed : 1.10GHz
Model Number : 1178 (estimated)
Performance Rating : PR1588 (estimated)
Type : Standard
Packaging : Socket A PGA
Multiplier : 11x
Generation : 7th (7x86)
Model Information : Duron Athlon 4/MP/XP (Thoroughbred) 1.5-2.5G+
1.5-1.65V


SiSoftware Sandra

Computer System
Manufacturer : ECS
Model : K7S5A


System Mainboard
Manufacturer : ECS
MP Support : No
Model : K7S5A
BIOS ID : 62-0120-001131-00101111-040201-SiS735



Any suggestions as to why this happening? How can I get the speed to
increase properly?

Thanks,

Tmuld.
 
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"Tavish Muldoon" <tmuldoon@spliced.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I have an Athlon 1700+ and ECS K755A motherboard.
>
> When it boots up the black screen and Sisoft Sandra say the chip is an
> 1100 Mhz cpu. Shouldn't it be 1700 or at least higher than 1100?

1467MHz to be more precise.
133x11

Seems likely to me that your front side bus is set at 100MHz when it should
be set at 133MHz.
Change it (probably in the BIOS but it might be a jumper)

Alun Harford
 

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"Tavish Muldoon" <tmuldoon@spliced.com> wrote in message
news:e2470f35.0404221144.6db772d@posting.google.com...
> Hello,
>
> I have an Athlon 1700+ and ECS K755A motherboard.
>
> When it boots up the black screen and Sisoft Sandra say the chip is an
> 1100 Mhz cpu. Shouldn't it be 1700 or at least higher than 1100?
>
>
> SiSoftware Sandra Bios info
>
> General Information
> Manufacturer : American Megatrends Inc.
> Version : 07.00T
> Date : 04/02/01
> Plug & Play Version : 1.00
> SMBIOS/DMI Version : 2.30
> (EE)PROM Size : 256kB (2Mbit)
>
> SiSoftware Sandra CPU
>
> Processor(s)
> Model : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
> Co-Processor (FPU) : Built-in
> Speed : 1.10GHz
> Model Number : 1178 (estimated)
> Performance Rating : PR1588 (estimated)
> Type : Standard
> Packaging : Socket A PGA
> Multiplier : 11x
> Generation : 7th (7x86)
> Model Information : Duron Athlon 4/MP/XP (Thoroughbred) 1.5-2.5G+
> 1.5-1.65V
>
>
> SiSoftware Sandra
>
> Computer System
> Manufacturer : ECS
> Model : K7S5A
>
>
> System Mainboard
> Manufacturer : ECS
> MP Support : No
> Model : K7S5A
> BIOS ID : 62-0120-001131-00101111-040201-SiS735
>
>
>
> Any suggestions as to why this happening? How can I get the speed to
> increase properly?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tmuld.
The ECS K7S5A has a problem with losing its bios settings, I had one in my
sons machine I thought it was the cmos battery at first but read about
people having the same problem. A bios update may help cut down the
frequency of it happening , but it still happens every so often. Mine was a
version 1.0 board

Dave
 

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The best help for this mother board and any problems is:

http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwb/ultimatebb.php

under ECS

They also have a GREAT bios update that allows for many more tweaks and OC
settings.
I use the K7S5A with a 1600+ and I can clock it to a 1900+ with 150 fsb.
They have great FAQs and helpful people.

Your current problem is the bios has reset to 100 instead of 133.
YB
"Dave" <nut_nut@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:c69mla$e97$1@titan.btinternet.com...
> "Tavish Muldoon" <tmuldoon@spliced.com> wrote in message
> news:e2470f35.0404221144.6db772d@posting.google.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have an Athlon 1700+ and ECS K755A motherboard.
> >
> > When it boots up the black screen and Sisoft Sandra say the chip is an
> > 1100 Mhz cpu. Shouldn't it be 1700 or at least higher than 1100?
> >
> >
> > SiSoftware Sandra Bios info
> >
> > General Information
> > Manufacturer : American Megatrends Inc.
> > Version : 07.00T
> > Date : 04/02/01
> > Plug & Play Version : 1.00
> > SMBIOS/DMI Version : 2.30
> > (EE)PROM Size : 256kB (2Mbit)
> >
> > SiSoftware Sandra CPU
> >
> > Processor(s)
> > Model : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
> > Co-Processor (FPU) : Built-in
> > Speed : 1.10GHz
> > Model Number : 1178 (estimated)
> > Performance Rating : PR1588 (estimated)
> > Type : Standard
> > Packaging : Socket A PGA
> > Multiplier : 11x
> > Generation : 7th (7x86)
> > Model Information : Duron Athlon 4/MP/XP (Thoroughbred) 1.5-2.5G+
> > 1.5-1.65V
> >
> >
> > SiSoftware Sandra
> >
> > Computer System
> > Manufacturer : ECS
> > Model : K7S5A
> >
> >
> > System Mainboard
> > Manufacturer : ECS
> > MP Support : No
> > Model : K7S5A
> > BIOS ID : 62-0120-001131-00101111-040201-SiS735
> >
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions as to why this happening? How can I get the speed to
> > increase properly?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tmuld.
> The ECS K7S5A has a problem with losing its bios settings, I had one in my
> sons machine I thought it was the cmos battery at first but read about
> people having the same problem. A bios update may help cut down the
> frequency of it happening , but it still happens every so often. Mine was
a
> version 1.0 board
>
> Dave
>
>




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