Abit KR7A + xp2000 will it work out of the box?

[rIpTOr]

I have a KR7A lying around from a little while ago and I will be recieving an Athlon XP 2000+ soon. Will the KR7A be able take this CPU or will I have to say buy a duron or something to upgrade the BIOS first?

 

[SnakeChomp]

There should be no problems running an Athlon 2000 on your board.

 

[rIpTOr]

So the BIOS will read it as an XP 1900 until I flash the bios with the latest version?

 

[Lonyo]

Have you checked the bios and what it lists? You could alyways set it manually. My KR7A (got in about April) has 2100+ listed I think, or at least the 2000+ and I have flashed it.

 

[rIpTOr]

I got my KR7A (non-raid version) in late June. I can't check the BIOS because I have no CPU for the board yet. I just want to know if the board will read the xp 2000 (the manual says 1900+) Or will I have to go and buy something in the range of up to an xp1900+ just for the board to work with the CPU?

 

[ShinSa]

you can always underclock it to 100 Mhz, and after you flashed the bios, pump it back up to 133Mhz

 

[rIpTOr]

Thanks for you insight everyone. Well I read the manual again and it says it has the following settings.
x5 up to x13

I guess the BIOS flash is to officially reconize it as an XP2000+ and not just an AMD Athlon 1670MHz If that won't work I'll try those options u mentioned. Thanks again

 

[CaptnKirk]

The ABIT board will give you the BIOS option to 'LOAD FAIL-SAFE DEFAULTS' or to 'LOAD OPTOMIZED DEFAULTS'. The fail-safe will most likely set you up as an XP1500+ at 100FSB, and the optomized will set you up as the highest level the board auto-detection recognizes. PF10 to save this setting and re-enter BIOS. Study the first BIOS entry to see what your starting point is. If you need to 'FLASH' the BIOS, perform it EXACTLY as the ABIT web-site tells you. Download the Award Flash.EXE program and the newest BIOS revision for your board to a clean formatted floppy, and do the re-boot. DO NOT INTERUPT THE PROGRAM FLASH ! It will do everything automatically. When you re-enter the BIOS you will see the added parameters for the CPU's. Then you can Tweak the BIOS to set your phasers to stun.

I wouldn't be suprised if you could run your XP2000+ as a 2100+/2200+ as you can get really aggressive with these boards without resorting to any unlocking. Some of the ABIT boards when coupled with certain video cards will let you 'loan' memory across the hard drive, I have an XP1800+ with a Prophet 4000XT 64MB, with 768MB
( 3 Sticks) of Crucial 256DDR that is recognized as 2048, and responds accordingly, this is on my Daughters system.

Kirk out.....

 

[rIpTOr]

Thanks for that info kirk. I think I'll play it safe until I get the latest bios. Then I'll see how far I can go with overclocking. I'm going to have a good heatsink and fan and some AS3. As soon as this heat lets up I'll see how far I can go. I also just ordered a 512MB crucial PC2100 stick

 

[billyjak]

Just built one for a friend 1 month ago, I ordered it with an XP 2000+ and it booted rght up with the correct speed.
I have a 1900xp in my KR7A Raid board and it was fine to.

Go Here and get the latest bios
I'm using the 9n 2.32 bios in mine, you can use the 9n for a board without raid.

If it dosen't boot up with the correct speed, just go into the bios and change the multiplyer and you'll be fine.