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Free Wheeling · Guest

Like so many of you good folks, I bought a barebones from Tiger Direct
and had my share of problems. It is now running stable but only at
1300 MHz. Am I missing something? Either in the BIOS or the jumpers
on the board itself. Please explain the correct jumper settings and
the BIOS settings as if I were a 3rd grader.

THX

uddarts · Guest

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Free Wheeling · Guest

Thanks UD,
Tried that and still showed 1.30, so in the BIOS I changed the FSB
Frequency from 166 to 200. Still I only see a 1.30 GHz. Any
suggestions would be appreciated.

THX

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:37:50 -0500, uddarts
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Guy · GURU Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 171

Refer to page 30 of your manual, section 3-7.

This board's Optimal setting is actually underclocking your chip by a large margin.

In BIOS, change your Freq/Voltage from Optimal to Aggressive. This will take you to 1.99 GHz, which is still a bit low for this chip's rating. If that is stable, you can try to overclock the chip by kicking it up to Turbo or Expert and playing with those settings.

I left mine at Aggressive, because I am Chicken.

In my experience, on most boards you can specify the frequency; I guess Chaintech dumbed down the process with this one.

There are no temperature sensor displays in BIOS either; too bad.
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don · Contributor Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Posts: 7

What CPU do you have?

uddarts · Guest

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uddarts · Guest

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uddarts · Guest

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Free Wheeling · Guest

Tried it all and can not get the cpu up past 1.30. Cpuz.exe shows a
13X at 100 MHz and the memory at 1:1 with 100 MHz. That seems right
but why cannot I get this same coordination at a faster FSB speed?

On 22 Sep 2005 01:37:28 -0400, uddarts
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Guy · GURU Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 171

ok...Your symptoms are consistent with JP3 set at 100 MHz. My board came set to the higher bus frequency, so I did not have to change it.

What pins do you have shorted? Refer to you manual, page 15 and verify that you have the jumper on pins 1 and 2. To get a higher CPU speed, you will need to change it. If you have already set it right, look for some foreign object that is shorting the pins.

Also, your manual, page 8 shows that you should use a multiplier of 10.5 for a 200 MHZ FSB, 13 for 166. Did you try both variations?
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uddarts · Guest

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Guy · GURU Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 171

One more thing...

I have been running my system (7NJL6 w/ XP2900) since mid-Feburary without a crash...I just rebooted my system and went into the BIOS.

Enter BIOS, Go into Frequency/Voltage control, and set the following:

System Interface: Expert
FSB Frequency: 200 MHZ
CPU Interface: Aggressive
Memory Frequency: Auto

Memory Timings: Optimal

And tell us what you get.

HTH!
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Free Wheeling · Guest

OK, good friends, I'm up to 2.16 MHz. Had to reset JP1 twice but it
finally booted with Optimized default loaded. Thanks for all the help
but will have to try again as soon as Rita goes through and we have
stabilized electricity. Being in Southwest Louisiana is not always
fun. I may be out of electricity and AC for a while but lots of
liquor and ice. I have to endure it but I don't have remember it.
Later.

THX

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 02:33:54 GMT,
gsaults@hotmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Guy) wrote:

nthums1 · Forum Regular Joined: 20 Aug 2005 Posts: 47

I would try to set the CPU for the intended bus speed, revealed by the part number on the processor. Verify at AMD, the word is that there are some that got rebadged to a lower speed. Also where are you checking the speed at. My Sempron 2800 333 bus runs at a true near 2Ghz. the 2800 is a rating.
Also check if there is a label on the RAM if it is Ultra. I thought I was getting pc3200 400MHz RAM from the ad and the BIOS detects as such from the SPD. I found the label actually says 266MHz and manually setting to such creates stability.
Start with BIOS reset per manual, boot to BIOS & set to optimum, boot machine and check Device Manager for proper hardware install. I have found that when viewing by device connection, the tree will reveal wrong connections to computer.

nthums1 · Forum Regular Joined: 20 Aug 2005 Posts: 47

I would try to set the CPU for the intended bus speed, revealed by the part number on the processor. Verify at AMD, the word is that there are some that got rebadged to a lower speed. Also where are you checking the speed at. My Sempron 2800 333 bus runs at a true near 2Ghz. the 2800 is a rating.
Also check if there is a label on the RAM if it is Ultra. I thought I was getting pc3200 400MHz RAM from the ad and the BIOS detects as such from the SPD. I found the label actually says 266MHz and manually setting to such creates stability.
Start with BIOS reset per manual, boot to BIOS & set to optimum, boot machine and check Device Manager for proper hardware install. I have found that when viewing by device connection, the tree will reveal wrong connections to computer.