Hi, I've read all the posts that could be the solvation of my problem but i still dont get it. i bought all the parts and put them together: AMD Athlon Xp 3000+ Asrock K7VT4A PRO 1Gb Team Memory ATI Radeon 9600 PRO Maxtor 200 Gb (i know i know...) 450 Watt PSU My pc runs at ~1.0Ghz now so thatcant be good FSB is set to 100Mhz now and i can change it but if i overdo it it will crash. and i can only get a 1900+ out of it (max). cant find the settings for any multiplier maybe i need another BIOS or so? please help me. my PC should run dubbel the speed.(at least i hope it should) Thank you very much email me if u want: bennie_steging@msn.com or say it here

[ WCPUID Version 3.3 (c) 1996-2004 By H.Oda! ] Processor #1 : AMD Athlon XP (Model A) / 4B1A17BA Platform : Socket A (Socket 462) Vendor String : AuthenticAMD CPU Type : Original OEM Processor (0) Family : 6 (7) Model : 10 (10) Stepping ID : 0 (0) Brand ID : - (-) APIC : ---- HT Log.CPU Cnt : ---- Name String : AMD Athlon(tm) XP Internal Clock : 1048.96 MHz System Bus : 199.80 MHz DDR System Clock : 99.90 MHz Multiplier : 10.5 L1 I-Cache : 64K Byte L1 D-Cache : 64K Byte L1 T-Cache : ---- L1 Cache : ---- L2 Cache : 512K Byte L2 Speed : 1048.96 MHz (Full) MMX Unit : Supported SSE Unit : Supported SSE2 Unit : Not Supported SSE3 Unit : Not Supported MMX2 Unit : Supported 3DNow! Unit : Supported 3DNow!+ Unit : Supported Host Bridge : 1106:3189.80 [VIA Apollo KT400/A] South Bridge : 1106:3227.00 [VIA VT8237] VGA Device : 1002:4150.00 [ATI RADEON 9600 Series] Memory Size : 1024M Byte Memory Clock : ---- OS Version : Windows XP Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 ----------------------- maybe this will help anything?

Is there a jumper on your motherboard that can control ur CPU FSB?? Correct way should be 200x10.5 = 2100Mhz.. Try read your motherboard's manual first and look for that jumper... If not, try 133Mhz/166Mhz then 200Mhz FSB setting... Make sure you RAM is DDR400... If your RAM is DDR266, then you may want to change the CPU:Memory to 3:2 so your FSB run at 400Mhz, RAM run at 266Mhz... TMP-Man Asus A7V classic rev 1.05 Athlon XP 2100+ @ 130x17 = 2209Mhz 1.81v 768MB PC133 RAM @ 130Mhz 2-2-2 40GB 540RPM + 120GB 7200RPM HD 128MB Radeon 9500 mod 9700 @ 360/585

Your board supports up to 333FSB CPUs only! Your 3000+ is the 400FSB version...so at the very best, it will run at 1750MHz (10.5 x 166MHz). Did you configure the FSB jumpers on your motherboard? Check your manual, page 13. Here's the jumper config for 166MHz (333FSB): FSB_SEL0 - place jumper cap on pins 2-3 FSB_SEL1 - OPEN (no jumper cap) FSB_SEL2 - place jumper cap on pins 1-2

OK thanks ill try and figure it out..

Im having problems on doing that jumper thing coz i got a vent over the processor and i have no idea how to take that off...maybe ill go return this one and buy a better one with a better mobo....like an AMD Athlon 64 4000+ or something

Did you even look at your manual? The jumpers aren't even close to the proccessor & they should be easy to get at...they're near the end of the 2 uppermost PCI slots, beneath the IDE connectors