- Jan 18, 2003
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Hi everyone, I was wondering if someone could help me 
I have a Gigabyte GA-7VA motherboard, Athlon XP 1700+ Palomino and 256mb DDR333 RAM. The problem is that I can't set my CPU to work at 1466Mhz(default for 1700+), but only to 1375Mhz. The current FSB is at 125Mhz(100Mhz overclocked). When I set it higher than 125, and save settings, the computer doesn't want to boot. The screen is blank for about 10 seconds and then the computer reboots with default settings(1100Mhz). Fan should be good enough, since it supports Athlon CPUs up to 1733Mhz(XP2100+). I have even tried to set jumpers to 133Mhz FSB, but it doesn't work either. I've talked to few friends and they told me that it might be because of my old 235W PSU, since Athlons require better PSU. So I bought a new one, 450W PSU. But it didn't help
I have seen on some test websites that GA-7VA is working very good with Athlon XP 1700+ Palomino, and why it doesn't wanna work for me, is mystery
I have also contacted Gigabye, and they told me to upgrade my BIOS. The most newest version is F9, while I have F8. I downloaded it and tried to upgrade from QFlash in BIOS(from floppy) and I get error like: "BIOS ROM erasing error!". I also tried to upgrade it from windows through Gigabyte auto update, but it said that my BIOS is not rewritabe :/
I know that I wont gain much better performace by changing it from 1375Mhz to 1466MHz, but I want to correct problem, so that I could upgrade it later with a faster CPU.
Thanks in advance
I have a Gigabyte GA-7VA motherboard, Athlon XP 1700+ Palomino and 256mb DDR333 RAM. The problem is that I can't set my CPU to work at 1466Mhz(default for 1700+), but only to 1375Mhz. The current FSB is at 125Mhz(100Mhz overclocked). When I set it higher than 125, and save settings, the computer doesn't want to boot. The screen is blank for about 10 seconds and then the computer reboots with default settings(1100Mhz). Fan should be good enough, since it supports Athlon CPUs up to 1733Mhz(XP2100+). I have even tried to set jumpers to 133Mhz FSB, but it doesn't work either. I've talked to few friends and they told me that it might be because of my old 235W PSU, since Athlons require better PSU. So I bought a new one, 450W PSU. But it didn't help
I have seen on some test websites that GA-7VA is working very good with Athlon XP 1700+ Palomino, and why it doesn't wanna work for me, is mystery
I have also contacted Gigabye, and they told me to upgrade my BIOS. The most newest version is F9, while I have F8. I downloaded it and tried to upgrade from QFlash in BIOS(from floppy) and I get error like: "BIOS ROM erasing error!". I also tried to upgrade it from windows through Gigabyte auto update, but it said that my BIOS is not rewritabe :/
I know that I wont gain much better performace by changing it from 1375Mhz to 1466MHz, but I want to correct problem, so that I could upgrade it later with a faster CPU.
Thanks in advance
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