Hopefully jam, heropsycho2177 or (johnoh where are you?) will be able to shed some light on this one for me...

I got a great buy on an Athlon XP 2600+ Barton and a crappy Foxconn K7S741gxm mobo...now this board supports 333fsb cpus and ddr333 of course. I was upgrading from a K7S5A Pro and an 1800+ for my son, who likes to game online...he has a GeForce FX 5600 Ultra with 512mb of ddr 266...

Anyways I put the foxconn board in with the xp 2600...on first boot it posted as as 2600+...so I went into the BIOS...the only changes I made were to the boot seq and the AGP speed...from auto to 8x...rebooted, the cpu was seen as a 2000+..I thought maybe because I was using pc2100 that the cpu clocked down to 133...so I took out the pc2100 and popped in a stick or pc3200 from my other pc...now I can't change the cpu frequency from anything but 133...I have the latest BIOS, tried resetting the CMOS, etc...any ideas? Foxconn tech support didn't much...

BTW.. there are no jumpers on the board to change the fsb...I tried fashing back to an older BIOS...no good...

Look for an "Expert" or "Manual" mode that unlocks these settings to allow you to tweak them. Look under both where you set your CPU parameters and memory parameters if they're in different submenus.

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Also, disable SPD for RAM timings.

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That board does have a BIOS-Protection Jumper in addition to the normal Clear CMOS Jumper found on most boards. Was this enabled or disabled when the flash was done?

Anyhow, the board supports 266/333 MHz FSB, unfortunately it does NOT support anything above PC2700/PC2100, so see if you can manually downclock the memory stick that you had put in there or remove it & see what gives.

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Seems this board is very limited in it's options...being a SiS chipset..no surprise...

Here's another person with the exact same prob...but diff cpu's..

http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/wind...

Sabertooth,
Thanks for your response, seems there is no BIOS protection jumper on this board...as I successfully flashed it back and forth a couple times between BIOS versions in an attempt to solve this without moving any jumpers...matter of fact there ae no jumpers on this board...anyone looking to sell an ASUS a7n8x??

Hey hero...I tried the CTRL-F1 and stuff...I don't think I can accessa ny advanced options...it's a SiS 741 chipset so...

I went to the Foxconn site & had a look at the manual. There's no explanation of BIOS settings...all it says is to click on DEFAULT & you're done. That's the worst manual I've ever seen! lol.

In the link you posted, there's a mention of BIOS settings & one of them is "Auto config Performance"...what are the other choices for that setting?

The only choices are Auto and Performance..neither of which allow me to change the cpu freq. Foxconn e-mailed me back, said if the processor is a Mobile this could possibly happen...according to the OPN on the cpu it is a desktop processer...Foxconn rep said he'd pass it on to R&D to see if they have a BIOS fix. Yeah the manual is pretty lean eh jam...

Sorry meant to say Normal and Performance...