IP-95 Compatability w/ Intel Core 2 E7300

[Mandos]

Hi friends,

my friend recently (on my advice) bought an Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 chip to upgrade his computer. He has the Abit IP-95 MB, and as you can see the Abit CPU support page shows that CPU as compatible with the IP-95 with the latest BIOS revision (13), which the appropriate Abit CPU support page says works fine: http://www.abit.com.tw/cpu-support-list/mb/via_p4m890_ip-95.htm

His specs:

Abit IP-95
Intel Core 2 Duo E7300
WinXP SP3
2 sticks DDR2 RAM at 400MHz
EVGA PCIe GFX-260

Before we installed the chip, we flashed his BIOS up to the 13 revision (1/30/08). When we installed the new processor, he gets on boot the error message: "a 2.66 mhz system bus processor is installed this processor is not supported on this board and will run at reduced speed"

One possibility I thought of was the chipset driver for the VIA P4M890. Doesn't one of the bridges (North?) control things like bus speed? I have no idea what driver version his chipset has. We run Driver Detective, it gives a list of out of date drivers (including VIA chipset components) in "System Devices," so we have run the Via Hyperion Pro Driver utility 5.22A like 20 times, but DD still shows the drivers as out of date.

We are very, very frustrated, and my friend is very sad. Any ideas what's wrong?

 

[Proximon]

The board just isn't capable of 333mhz bus speeds. Your only option is an upgrade.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128389

 

[Mandos]

Promixon,

thanks for posting a reply. Do you mean the CPU supported info from abit is just plain wrong, and the CPU we got is not compatible with the board? They're just fibbers?

 

[Proximon]

Well, compatibility is a vague term really.

Look what they say at the top of this list:
http://www.abit.com.tw/cpu-support-list/mb/via_p4m890_ip-95.htm

"Supports FSB 1066 / 800 / 533MHz" The CPU might run at 333, but the board won't run faster than 266Mhz, at least it looks that way to me.

The chipset manufacturer is basically saying the same thing.
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/chipsets/p4-series/p4m890/

You can run the CPU on the board, sure. You just can't run it at it's full speed.

 

[Mandos]

Proximon, thanks again for posting. I guess I'm dense, but I'm confused by "333." The E7300 is a 1066 chip, and the board is a 1066 FSB board, so I don't see the the problem. Both webpages you linked to show the MB capable of running at 1066MHz, and that's what the E7300 runs at (doesn't it?): http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLAPB

 

[Mandos]

I'm utterly confused here. We ran CPU-Z, and it showed the CPU running at a bus speed of 266, and a rated FSB of 1066. That happened both with the CMOS set to auto-detect CPU speed, and then manually setting the speed to 266 (you can manually set from 250-300). I mean, wtf?

 

[Proximon]

Sigh, you and me both it seems. I would have sworn that both the E7200 and E7300 ran on 333Mhz buses.

Sorry for the mix up.

If CPU-Z reports the actual speed as 2.66Ghz, then you should be set.

 

[Mandos]

Umm, is it possible that because he has DDR400 (PC3200) memory, would that bottleneck things so that the board was limited to an 800MHz FSB?

 

[Grimble_Crumble]

The support page says that that CPU is incompatible with the motherboard

 

[aaaz]

Ditto on the IP-95, won't boot with E7400 either. No reply from Abit.

 

[Mandos]

aaaz, we read the CPU compatibility document wrong: the IP-95 won't support that chip. You'll need to get a new MB.

 

[Soumyabrata_1]

Hi friends,

my friend recently (on my advice) bought an Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 chip to upgrade his computer. He has the Abit IP-95 MB, and as you can see the Abit CPU support page shows that CPU as compatible with the IP-95 with the latest BIOS revision (13), which the appropriate Abit CPU support page says works fine: http://www.abit.com.tw/cpu-support-list/mb/via_p4m890_ip-95.htm

His specs:

Abit IP-95
Intel Core 2 Duo E7300
WinXP SP3
2 sticks DDR2 RAM at 400MHz
EVGA PCIe GFX-260

Before we installed the chip, we flashed his BIOS up to the 13 revision (1/30/08). When we installed the new processor, he gets on boot the error message: "a 2.66 mhz system bus processor is installed this processor is not supported on this board and will run at reduced speed"

One possibility I thought of was the chipset driver for the VIA P4M890. Doesn't one of the bridges (North?) control things like bus speed? I have no idea what driver version his chipset has. We run Driver Detective, it gives a list of out of date drivers (including VIA chipset components) in "System Devices," so we have run the Via Hyperion Pro Driver utility 5.22A like 20 times, but DD still shows the drivers as out of date.

We are very, very frustrated, and my friend is very sad. Any ideas what's wrong?

my windows 7 is not loading up at all after installing e7300