I'm trying to replace an Athlon 600 with an Athlon 900. When it tries to boot it hangs at where it says CPU speed 900MHz. I can't access Bios either. I have the latest Bios so I'm told. I have a MS-6167 MoBo with 1.6B V. Bios MS-6167 specifications CPUs supported AMD Athlon 500MHz and higher RAM supported PC100 SDRAM DIMMs, 3.3v, maximum 768MB Form factor ATX (20.9cm x 30.5cm) Chipset AMD Irongate (Northbridge) AMD 756 Viper (Southbridge) Expansion slots 1 AGP, 1x and 2x, 66/133MHz, 3.3v 5 PCI 2 ISA Peripheral interfaces 2 serial ports 2 USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports, 2 optional front panel USB connectors 2 IDE (Ultra DMA and ATA/66 support) Floppy drive (360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M, 2.88M) Game port Parallel port (supports SPP/EPP/ECP) PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports BIOS Award (9/30/99) provides Plug & Play and Desktop Management Interface (DMI) Boot options Up to four can be selected from: floppy, LS/Zip, HDD-0/HDD-1, HDD-3, SCSI, CDROM, LAN, disabled. All devices available in any sequence. Miscellaneous Slot A Wake-up on LAN connector Power saving switch connector 200MHz EV6 system interface (100MHz bus, timed at rising and falling edges of clock) OHCI USB APIC ACPI power management IrDA module connector Can anyone advise?

check the jumpers on the board. i dont know whats causing it, but i would suggest that you switch to a cheap socket a board. at least if you got a socket a board you would be able to upgrade it to different processor in the future. the msi 745 ultra is a really nice board thats overclockable and a good price. i didnt see any 6167 on msi site, maybe you have a different board. go here and search for it and read about it problems. maybe there are bios to be downloaded, etc. http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_list.php?kind=1&CHIP=17&NAME=Archives

I have a Gigabyte M.B. GA-7IXE4 with the same AMD chipset. It was developed for the first Athlon and Duron models and only supports processor with a 200Mhz FSB. I'm not sure about the Atlon ones but you only can put on it the Model 3 Durons not models 6 or 7 (The latest 'Morgan' core at 1.75 volts) see the AMD web page about the CPUs that your or mine board admits.

It seems MSI has redone their website. There used to be tons of slot A boards listed on their website, and now, there are two. Ironically, I own both of the one's still listed. Anyway, I can't seem to find much of anything on their website, hardly even a mention of the board to tell the truth. It might be unstable because the processor is not certified to go to that speed. I know the MS-6191 was one of the first boards certified for 1 Ghz operation, so maybe the 6167 couldn't make the cut.