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Profile: stranger
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Below are my PC Specs.
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Profile: addict
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Did the system work fine with the previous CPU with nothing else changed? Are both CPUs single-core? Have you considered that the 3000+ is simply a defective CPU? Many purchases from Ebay are faulty... |
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Profile: old hand
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Maybe the reason it's on e-bay in the first place is because someone overclocked it until it blew? Never buy things like video cards and cpus second hand unless it's from someone you trust. |
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Your new CPU hould work fine on that mobo unless it's defective. Reinstall the old CPU and see is it works again. If it does, you probably just got a bad CPU off ebay. Good luck getting a replacement/refund. |
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on your mobo their will be a jumper, set it to 333mhz fsb, that is your problem, amd boards don't detect their cpus via cpuid, they do it via clockspeed. --------------- -"From whence you came you shall remain, until you are complete again!" Peter Mitchell |
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Have you done what megame255 said and replaced the old cpu? What about disabling SATA in the bios and trying to install like that? XP can have some issues with SATA, even if (like you) you have the drivers. |
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Is that Memory Frequency?
--------------- My PC Specs: 1.33 GHz AMD Athlon Thunderbird A7V600 MOBO Pioneer DVD-ROM |
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--------------- My PC Specs: 1.33 GHz AMD Athlon Thunderbird A7V600 MOBO Pioneer DVD-ROM |
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Great! But which bit did you do? The old cpu or the SATA thing? |
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The old cpu --------------- My PC Specs: 1.33 GHz AMD Athlon Thunderbird A7V600 MOBO Pioneer DVD-ROM |
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I would increase the memory voltage to 2.7v and maybe add a .05v to the CPU. since your system is old, maybe the PSU is not up to the task, so increasing voltage may help to stabilize the thing. If you can try a newer PSU, this would help to see if it is a power issue. |
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"It's working! It's working!" - Anakin Skywalker The Phantom Menace
--------------- My PC Specs: 1.33 GHz AMD Athlon Thunderbird A7V600 MOBO Pioneer DVD-ROM |
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If it ain't broken, modd it!
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no - your CPU is just working at half speed.
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The Athlon XP 3000+ is a 2.166 GHz CPU with a 166 MHz FSB and a x13 multiplier. Increase the multiplier if it allows you to do so to the CPU's max of x13, which will generate the correct speed and ID for the processor. If you cannot change the multiplier to x13, then the CPU was not a 3000+ to begin with.
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