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Knot@Work · Guest

I bought a L7S7A2 Motherboard and an AMD 2700+ XP
http://www.ecsusa.com/products/l7s7a2.html. I updated the Bios to the latest
rev from ECS's website.

When the machine boots and starts to post, it only sees the CPU as an AMD
2100+ XP

The system bios are pretty much set to default settings. Has anyone else
had similar issues, is there any thing I can change to have the motherboard
see the CPU as a 2700+

System configuration:

GeForce FX440 128 Meg

256 2700 DDR 333 Ram

40 Gigs HDD

2 CDRom Drives

300W power supply

On board sound, onboard LAN

Thank you in advance

Roland

tonys · Guest

change the buss speed from 133 to 166

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Julian Richards · Guest

On Sun, 23 May 2004 12:28:20 -0700, "tonys" <aarcuda@lvcm.com.spam>
wrote:

dhinchli · Member Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 2

I purchased the exact same combo on Ebay and my BIOS is doing the same thing - AMD XP 2100+ at 1.73 GHz. In the advanced chipset features you can change the bus to 166 MHz. I did this and the boot screen has the processor identified correctly as AMD XP 2700+, but I never get past the Windows XP splash screen and a blue screen fatal error occurs. I read in another forum that the ECS mainboard is unstable at 166 and you should set it at 167. I tried this and got to the Windows log on screen and then the computer re-starts by itself and I get the blue screen on the re-boot. I have tried other bus settings, higher and lower, but the same fatal error. I am contacting ECS and will keep you posted. Maybe if we put our heads together we can figure it out. Good luck.

Doug Hinchliffe

TX_Dude · Guest

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I bought one of these last week at Fry's for my kid.
Left the multiplier setting at "by CPU" and then set
the bus speed in the BIOS to 166. Works great.
Did you install XP from scratch? Or are you
replacing the motherboard/CPU in your current
machine? You may need to do a "repair/install"
if the hard drive was connected and XP was installed
using another motherboard.

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dhinchli · Member Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 2

I reformatted the hard drive and installed XP professional from scratch. Now the computer will not even go to the BIOS screen when turned with the XP 2700+. I had to install my old Duron 1 GHz processor in the board just to have a computer to use. I am thinking of updating the BIOS but I cannot find the BIOS upgrade for this board on the ECS site. They list L7S7A upgrade, but not L7S7A2.

TX_Dude · Guest

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Is your memory DDR333 (PC2700)?

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