Helping a friend with his computer.

[OmnipotentKiwi]

Need another piece of advice (this must be the worse tech day for me, ever). I am helping a friend build his computer and I am having problems getting the motherboard to recognize the proccessor. The processor is an AMD Barton 2500+, the motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-7AXP (KT400 Chipset). I flashed the bios since before it did not recognize the processor at all. Now it recognizes it, but it claims it is a 1100mHz processor. Any ideas?

[Zatrais]

checked the fsb and multipler? whit a barton 2500 it should be 166 mhz real speed (333 whit the 2x thing AMD has) and 11 as the multipler.

Sounds like the board is running the cpu in safe mode to keep it from frying.

[OmnipotentKiwi]

I'm trying to mess with it manually now. Unfortunately the board has physical switches which I have to mess with.

[Zatrais]

yeah, has a DIP for the multipler... shouldn't be to hard

FSB is in the bios tho, so thats easy hehe

lettme know how it works out =)

[OmnipotentKiwi]

Well the FSB is giving me problems because of the switch I think. Still tweaking with it. A little bit of unfamiliar AMD territory here. Hehe

[Zatrais]

ewll the 2500 OC's like mad so you should have alott of clearing if you accidentally set the multiple wrong =P

[OmnipotentKiwi]

Rofl. I am not that much of a noob ;) But yeah, I did hear they OCed like crazy.

I'm having another problem while trying to work on this, not sure if it is related or not. The computer hangs at start up, as in power on, and then I have to wait for it to actual start the mobo up (no beep code, but a long ass wait for the beep) and afterwards, it hangs going into bios.

[OmnipotentKiwi]

Hit l33t whore with this thread. :D

[Zatrais]

bout time

welcome to the club =)

[OmnipotentKiwi]

Thanks, and I fixed this problem. :D