Iwill XP333-R

[SmooveJD]

I just installed the above mentioned I will mother board in my computer replacing an Abit KT7-raid. The new chip is an XP1800+.

Problem 1. even thought the board is suppose to set the processor speed automatically, It reads my XP1800+ Chip as an athlon 1150mhz. I did find a way of getting the Motherboard to recognize the XP as an XP1800 by setting the asyncronouse setting from the iwillconfiguration to 133/166 setting. ( I think that's what it said). After doing so the chip was read as an XP1800+

Problem 2. The video gets funny from time to time. Little blocks appear, lines, etc. I'm using a raedon 7200 by the way.

 

[Crashman]

Athons (including XP's) do NOT have a circuit for automatic bus speed detection, you always have to set them to 133MHz FSB when you first install them!

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

 

[CoOLMaNX]

about your video problems, maybe update your drivers for your card and if that isn't the problem, have you used the card on another system and not have these problems? i would highly doubt that the vid image has something to do with the mobo

didnt have one of em electronic pens so ill just type my name,<i>CoOoLMaNX</i>

 

[tdean]

i think with that bios, there is an option to increase pci bus and agp? he may have inadvertantly set it too high. anyway, it sounds like his card is running too fast and he's getting artifacts from it. id set bios to defaults, then reset the bus speed to 133 and see how it is.

....the birds seemed to be calling him, thought caw....

 

[girish]

the ratio 133/166 makes your CPU run at 133 MHz FSB, thats good, but you are overclocking the memory way too much in a single step. thats what is giving you video problems, your Radeon card is running at 83 MHz. it isnt too high for most modern cards, but hey it isnt nVidia!

try setting the ratio to 133/133 or 133/100!

girish

<font color=red>Nothing is fool-proof. Fools are Ingenious!</font color=red>

 

[AMD_Man]

He's not running his AGP bus at 83! The 133/166 setting runs the RAM at 166MHz only.

AMD technology + Intel technology = Intel/AMD Pentathlon IV; the <b>ULTIMATE</b> PC processor

 

[girish]

oops! sorry.

he is running the AGP at 66 MHz! so for his video problems, maybe the video memory is bad.

<font color=red>Nothing is fool-proof. Fools are Ingenious!</font color=red>

 

[BuffDaddy]

I am running the same exact motherboard with an XP 2000+. I had the same exact problems. Upgrade to the latest BIOS and it will adjust the bus speed automatically and report the processor speed correctly. As for the video, you have to use brand name PC2700 RAM or it won't run stable over 100mhz. No cheap stuff.

"Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps his mouth shut."

 

[SmooveJD]

Thanks fokes for your posts. I did upgrade my bios. However, it did not fix my auto detection problem. I now have PC2100 ram in there...cas 2.5...yes..cheap stuff... Looks like i'm going to excchange it for the PC 2700 cas 2. I was able to get my Mobo to recognize the 1800+, but only after manually setting stuff. I did notice one issue...they have a hard wire adjustment on the board for either 100 or 133. I have it set on the board at 100. Hmmm maybe I'll set it for 133 and set the bios to default and go from there. Now here's a question...where does this 333mhz thing come in?? Haven't seen anything that says 333.

Here';s another question...can you over clock ata 100 hard drives to do ata 133??

thanks again for the info guys ..I'm out.