My CPU isn't showing up right....

[Buddyroe333]

In my Windows control panel, under system, why is my Athlon XP 1700 showing up as like a 1.1 gighertz? I thought it was supposed to be like 1.4 or something. Do I need to change something in my bios or something? I don't want to overclock or anything, just want it to run like it's supposed to.

 

[leedz]

I think you should update your bios.Some softwares like "AMD CPUID"can check the default frequence of AMD's CPU.
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by leedz on 11/20/02 04:25 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[o1die]

Change you cpu clock (fsb) to 133 in the bios or check for an onboard jumper.

 

[Lord_Goffery]

change your fsb to 133mhz and if it runs unstable then it might be your ram my friend's comp was working normaly and he installed new ram then boom a week later his 2100+ was running at 1.3ghz so we took the ram out and it fixed it self well just a thought good luck!

 

[Sp00nLude]

Yeah this is happening to my 1600+ too , and I've also added new ram, but I havent verified that it is the ram thats causing the problem. Is this a AMD fault or is my RAM bad if it doesnt run stable?

 

[rcj187]

if you added ram and now your system is unstable then you have bad ram.. nothing to do with the processor (probably)
if you upgrade a computer and it starts being unstable then 99% of the time the upgrade is the problem.. dont automatically blame the processor..

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