I recently purchased an AMD Athlon 2800+, which is supposed to be running at or around 2 GHz, but is instead running at 600MHz. Im using an Asus A7V400-MX, and have just updated the BIOS to 1009 (newest version) with no change.
I have read elsewhere that you can adjust the multipler or clock frequency to help solve this problem, but I cannot find anything like this in the bios.
Someone said that it could be because it was a Mobile chip (AMD Athlon M2800+) And that it could display a low speed but run at full. Unfortunately, I've seen my system slow down significantly from my 1.2GHz processor (previous CPU)
The Bios has several sections that are unavailable for selection (greyed out) as follows.
CPU Speed: 600 MHz
Cache DRAM: 512k
Current FSB Frequency: 100MHz
Current DRAM Frequenct: 133MHz
Below is a post from Belarc System Advisor with all other hardware info.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Operating System System Model
Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 4 (build 2195) ASUS A7V400-MX 1.03
System Serial Number: 123456789000
Asset Tag: 123456789000
Chassis Serial Number: EVAL
Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
600 megahertz AMD Athlon XP
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: ASUSTek Computer INC. A7V400-MX 1.03
Serial Number: 123456789000
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS A7V400-MX ACPI BIOS Revision 1009 12/21/2004
Drives Memory Modules c,d
20.84 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
3.70 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
ATAPI 52X CDROM [CD-ROM drive]
SONY CD-RW CRX175E2 [CD-ROM drive]
VI6063X WSR230Q SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive]
VI6063X WSR230Q SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
Maxtor 2F020J0 [Hard drive] (20.85 GB) -- drive 0, s/n F16616RE, rev VAM51JJ0, SMART Status: Healthy 512 Megabytes Installed Memory
Slot 'A0' is Empty
Slot 'A1' has 512 MB
Local Drive Volumes
c: (NTFS on drive 0) 5.26 GB 1.70 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 0) 15.59 GB 2.00 GB free
Network Drives
None detected
Printers
HP OfficeJet Pro 1150 C on DOT4_001
Microsoft Office Document Image Writer Driver on Microsoft Document Imaging Writer Port:
Controllers Display
Standard floppy disk controller
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
VIA Bus Master IDE Controller RADEON X700 Series [Display adapter]
RADEON X700 Series Secondary [Display adapter]
KDS ion VS-7e [Monitor] (15.2"vis, s/n 0016843009, December 1998)
PHILIPS 107S [Monitor] (15.2"vis, s/n YA 66183631, September 2001)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
VAXSCSI Controller
ATI Remote Wonder Controller
VIA PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller
VIA USB Universal Host Controller (3x) Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI (WDM)
Game Port for Creative
SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
Standard Game Port
Communications Other Devices
VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter
primary Auto IP Address: 70.244.237.117 / 24
Gateway: 70.244.237.118
Dhcp Server: 192.168.0.1
Physical Address: 00:13:D4:9E:84:24
Networking Dns Server: 192.168.0.1
HID-compliant device
USB Human Interface Device (2x)
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
HID-compliant mouse (2x)
USB 2.0 Root Hub
USB Root Hub (3x)
