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an under clocked cpu @ 2/250Mhz
Name: Nicholas (by asquielt) Date: October 20, 2005 at 00:24:52 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home Edition CPU/Ram: AMD 500 98MB
Comment:
I just upgraded a Jetway J530BF 166Mhz Socket7 computer with an AMD500Mhz processor and fan but the bios reports the processor as 2/250Mhz . Why ?
Name: jam Date: October 20, 2005 at 05:42:23 Pacific
Reply:
Did you change the jumpers for multiplier, FSB, & CPU voltage?
http://www.j-mark.com/PRODUCT/mb/j530bf.html
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Response Number 2
Name: Dragon306 Date: October 21, 2005 at 16:24:28 Pacific
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most performance increased to be gain via more RAM as well, but yeah check the jumper settings on the motherboard.
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Response Number 3
Name: Nicholas (by asquielt) Date: October 23, 2005 at 01:57:38 Pacific
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I have found that when putting jumpers on pins in the few older computers I have I put them on in the opposite positions to the manuals . I don't read very well and sure enough I set the jumpers on FS0 and FS1 rather than FS1 and FS2 and now the computer sees the cpu as an AMD K2/500 processor . Thanks for your help .
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