I just upgraded from the 1.3 Ghz Athlon Duron to the Athlon XP 1800+. I have 384 MB of SDRAM 133. I have a couple issued I need resolving. First, I was able to set it to 133/133 when previously with the duron i could only do 100/100. I'm not totally clear about how FSB works, I believe with the XP 1800 + it can be 266mhz. Correct me if i'm wrong, but the type of ram figures into that, right? Since I only have the 133 SDRAM that would mean 133 FSB, correct? Well, either way it should be more that 66 which what it says when I was looking my stats displayed by futuremark after I used 3D Mark 2001 SE. Any program or utility to use to see what its actually set or running at? and if its at 66, how would I correct?
My second problem is less important, but annoying. My boot up time is horrible for my system. I've read from other people with similar systems that they boot anywhere from 20-40 seconds and people getting disgusted after 40 seconds. Well, my boot time is over 2 minutes. I run Windows XP pro and even messed with the system config to stop some programs from loading at startup. I even tried the program Bootvis, but when it boots back up and says its optimizing my system, it just sits there for several minutes and does nothing. i really hope the problem is with my hard drive, because that all I can come up with. any help will be greatly appreciated.
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