Tha*Lunat!k
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Help! Athlon defaulting to 1300MHz.
Ok so what started as a simple CPU fan upgrade turned out to be a lot of headache. When putting the fan on the screwdriver slipped as usually happens once or twice, but this time the motherboard no longer would post. It powered on, just wouldn't boot.
So we go out and buy a Gigabyte 7nf-rz cuz it seemed decent and wasn't too costly. As is common we had to repair the Windows install (basically a reinstall with no format) because the IDE drivers won't let the OS load (it just blue screens on loading). Only this time a repair didn't work, so we ended up having to reformat and doing a fresh install.
Anyway, as usual the AthlonXP processor defaulted to 1300MHz, something I've had happen on my motherboards many times when doing hardware stuff (his is actually an XP 3000). But in my other BIOSes I could manually adjust multipliers and frequencies to raise it to proper speeds. Well this motherboard doesn't let you adjust those things, so I can only set the FSB. There is also a switch on the board called "CLK" something or other, and the manual says to set it to default ("On") to use buses of 266, 333, or 400. When turning the switch on, however, the computer refuses to post.
Also the RealTek onboard LAN lights up with a cable plugged in, but in Windows there are no network devices even detected. I saw nothing in his BIOS about enabling or disabling the onboard LAN myself either.
I am really thinking I should return it and spend a little more for a trusty Asus that I know how to work. I will likely do that tomorrow to solve this as quickly as possible, but I'd love to see if anyone has other suggestions for me first.
Ok so what started as a simple CPU fan upgrade turned out to be a lot of headache. When putting the fan on the screwdriver slipped as usually happens once or twice, but this time the motherboard no longer would post. It powered on, just wouldn't boot.
So we go out and buy a Gigabyte 7nf-rz cuz it seemed decent and wasn't too costly. As is common we had to repair the Windows install (basically a reinstall with no format) because the IDE drivers won't let the OS load (it just blue screens on loading). Only this time a repair didn't work, so we ended up having to reformat and doing a fresh install.
Anyway, as usual the AthlonXP processor defaulted to 1300MHz, something I've had happen on my motherboards many times when doing hardware stuff (his is actually an XP 3000). But in my other BIOSes I could manually adjust multipliers and frequencies to raise it to proper speeds. Well this motherboard doesn't let you adjust those things, so I can only set the FSB. There is also a switch on the board called "CLK" something or other, and the manual says to set it to default ("On") to use buses of 266, 333, or 400. When turning the switch on, however, the computer refuses to post.
Also the RealTek onboard LAN lights up with a cable plugged in, but in Windows there are no network devices even detected. I saw nothing in his BIOS about enabling or disabling the onboard LAN myself either.
I am really thinking I should return it and spend a little more for a trusty Asus that I know how to work. I will likely do that tomorrow to solve this as quickly as possible, but I'd love to see if anyone has other suggestions for me first.