CPU is unworkable or has changed??

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Name: snoopy104
Date: October 27, 2004 at 05:18:11 Pacific
Subject: CPU is unworkable or has changed??
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Hi, When I boot my machine it now tells me that my processor is an AMD Athlon 1350MHz (13.5x100MHz)
and that my "CPU is unworkable or has changed, please check softmenuIII"
My processor is an Athlon XP 2200+, It's less than a year old and is in a computer which is probably only used for short periods of time 2-3 times a week at the most
for games. It has NEVER been overclocked
Softmenu III shows that the processor is set to all defaults (13.5x133MHz), auto detect FSB/DRAM ratio etc etc, so nothing's been changed in there. The chip temperature is 35 degrees C and the Coolermaster Aero7 lite on the chip is functioning ok, as are the other three case fans.
Is my processor broken? is it something else?

thanks
AMD Athlon XP2200+
Aero7 lite
512mb Crucial pc2700
Abit NF7-s V2.0
80GB Seagate SATA
120GB Seagate SATA
Geforce4 Ti4200 128mb
Benq FP767-12 17" 12ms
SB live 5.1 Digital

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Response Number 1

Name: indigian
Date: October 27, 2004 at 08:16:24 Pacific
Subject: CPU is unworkable or has changed??

Reply: (edit)

Might be your mobo's battery?

Tt Lanfire
nf7-s v2.0
XP-m 2500@211x11
SP 97
512mb pc3200
Jou Jye 550w psu
FX5600
WDCaviar 160gb sata
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Response Number 2

Name: Sabertooth
Date: October 27, 2004 at 11:00:10 Pacific
Subject: CPU is unworkable or has changed??

Reply: (edit)

Go into the BIOS and set your CPU/FSB option to user defined and select 266 as your FSB. Save the changes exit and reboot.
FYI: Athlon XP 2200+ runs default @ 1800MHz viz (133x13.5).

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Response Number 3

Name: lg9999
Date: November 15, 2004 at 04:21:30 Pacific
Subject: CPU is unworkable or has changed??

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I have an ABIT KV7 with Sempron 2200+
I had the same problem and flashed my bios to latest version 08/2004. This didn't help.
Then read something about the VGA slot and my 4X Matrox G450 card. So I changed the VGA voltage in soft menu to 1.5 from 1.55. That solved the problem but then had some crashing in Windows. Changed the graphic card to an 8X card and that seems to do it!

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