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I've got an Asus A7V8X-X mobo and an Athlon XP2400+ CPU. It's running at 1500Mhz absolutely fine but I'm not sure how to change it to run at 2000Mhz - that's what it can do, isn't it? What multiplier and external frequency do I need?
Thanks.
Hi. Thanks for that - I've tried that, but before Windows gets to finish loading, the computer resets itself and sometimes won't come on again until I've switched off at the PSU for several seconds. When I reset it to 1.5Ghz (100x15) it works fine again and Windows says that it's recovered from a serious error - then when I send the error report Microsoft analyses the error and rather unhelpfully says that a device driver installed on my system caused the error.
Could it have anything to do with the graphics card??? It's just a Geforce MX400 64Mb cheapo card.
Any other ideas please?!!
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I have same motherboard, and 2500+ (barton 333mhz).
DO you have a barton maybe? If so it should be 166mhz bus.
The option is in the bios, 166 or 133. Check your cpu before trying this.
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BTW, the Vcore setting is Auto (1.6v) - is this right? I don't really understand all of this - in the past I've just stuck all the bits together and it's worked!!!
I'm getting a new graphics card tomorrow which I know is compatible - the mobo says something about requiring a 8x AGP card at 1.5v, so could that be the problem?
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If your not sure what cpu you have , check the long code printed on the cpu and post it here, the speed rating and chip type is refered to in the code.
eg Axa xxxx xxxx 2400 etc
and yep 15 X is right, tho to run at 333 you need pc2700 spec ram not pc2100.
id check if its a barton before doing anything imho bartons were produced at 2500 mhz+.
worth checking & extra nfo 4 u.
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I'll have a look at the CPU when I get a chance ...
In the meantime, the new 8x AGP card is installed, but it's not made any difference.
However, I've tried a few different settings and I can get it to run stably at 166 x 10.5 or 100 x 18. The CPU runs at about 48C.
Could it be that it heats up too much at 2Ghz? Could it be that the CPU is faulty?
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OK, problem solved ...
The mobo is fine. It likes to have a clean partition to install on, that's all.
The CPU is fine. The problem was with overheating. The position of the CPU on the mobo with my particular case meant that the PSU was directly overhead, so it wasn't getting cool enough. I changed the case, used some decent thermal compound, put a couple of case fans in, and the whole system now runs really stable at 2Ghz with the CPU getting to 41 degrees max and the mobo 38 degrees.
The CPU is now set to 133 x 15.
Hope this helps someone else!
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