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Athlon 2100 running at 667mhz
Name: xthejuicex Date: January 7, 2008 at 08:19:29 Pacific OS: Gentoo CPU/Ram: Athlon 2100+ Product: Via Kt266?
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Hello. I have a Athlon 2100+ XP that I have been using for a while. Recently it has been running at 6647mhz and the FSB is around 133mhz. I have had it working fine before. Sometimes I have gotten the "Athlonn 2100+" to show up but most times it just says "Athlon 667Mhz". I was thinking that this is a heating issue but the temps are around 80F (not Celsius) when I check it in BIOS. I have flashed to the latest BIOS that was released for the motherboard and it still is running slow. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated
Name: WebsWonder Date: January 7, 2008 at 08:40:54 Pacific
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CMOS Battery dead ??
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Response Number 2
Name: xthejuicex Date: January 7, 2008 at 09:02:28 Pacific
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No it still holds all information. I can increase the FSB and it will save that. I think something is wrong with the multiplier but there is nowhere to change that in BIOS and I dont think that I can in the motherboard
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Response Number 3
Name: WebsWonder Date: January 7, 2008 at 11:15:14 Pacific
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"I dont think that I can in the motherboard"
Have you actually read the motherboard manual ? or are you just guessing ?
btw VIA KT266 is neither a model or a manufacturer of the motherboard!
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Response Number 4
Name: jam Date: January 7, 2008 at 12:47:13 Pacific
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The only way your CPU could be running at 667MHz would be if the multiplier is lowering to 5x. This wouldn't happen to be a laptop, would it?
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Response Number 5
Name: br84 Date: January 24, 2008 at 04:04:18 Pacific
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thats what i was thinking, if it is a laptop then powernow! could be dropping the multiplier down to 5x to save battery power. If this is the case trying downloading cpu-z and run the exe file, this will tell you the cpu clock speed.
Try changing the power settings in the control panel to always on if running windows or if your running linux try googling how to get powernow to function correctly with your machine...this may require hacking some files and adding lines.
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