Am I missing something in Setup? Access to multipliers?

[imported_Kiwi]

It's the oldest operational PC I have on hand, but I added two more PC's in the same room, and it was pretty hot in there in summer with one small window AC. I had a spare XP 2100 Palomino -- this older PC previously had a Thunderbird 1.33 cpu, and idled in the mid to high 40's celcius. The 2100 was idling a great deal cooler (below 40), but seemingly at only a 100 MHz FSB, and ignored any settings to the contrary.

So I was getting no speed improvement. But I let it rock along there while working on a PC for my grandson, and a loaner when that one had to be picked back up again. Finally, today, I ran the BIOS update that was supposed to tell the setup about cpu's up through XP 2200 speed/multiplier. The result is no real change, yet. The setup is identifying the cpu as an XP 1500 instead.

Unless my eyes are worse than I thought, I've seen no special key code anywhere on any setup menu to access a "special" menu where cpu's and their multipliers are dealt with. I'll look up the AMD specs on the XP 1500 -- I don't think it's already at 13, I think it's supposed to be 10 times 133 . .


:frown:

 

[Peter]

Multipliers are fixed in those processors. You need to set the CPU bus clock to 133, and then the CPU will be doing its factory-preset multiplier from there.

All desktop XP processors were at least 133 MHz bus. Time to RTFM

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Originally posted by: Peter
Multipliers are fixed in those processors. You need to set the CPU bus clock to 133, and then the CPU will be doing its factory-preset multiplier from there.

According to the chart, the XP 1500 had a 10X multiplier. Same as the Thunderbird 1.33

All desktop XP processors were at least 133 MHz bus. Time to RTFM

I'm sure that the critter had a manual. I believe I can remember referring to the original one some 18 months back when I picked up a Version 2.1 of the ZXE from eBay and assembled an almost twin of the first Gigabyte based PC. The jumper had been in the same spot (133) since I bought this as a White Box machine in late 2000 or early 2001. The only thing I can figure is that the F8 BIOS wasn't really what I needed, after all.

I can't recall ever running across an enthusiasts' message forum devoted to Gigabyte users, but I think I'll Google for that now!

 

[Peter]

You can still ask Gigabyte as well. They're not dead (just resting )

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Originally posted by: Peter
You can still ask Gigabyte as well. They're not dead (just resting )

Well, I wasn't at all sure that a "Norwegian Blue" didn't need its feet nailed down . . oh, yes, we're doing computers here, not MP sketches! "Spam, Spam, Spam!" And I did leave a query on their web site, but I'd already discovered that other folks were using their eyes better than I was (although I have new glasses since then), when at first I didn't find any BIOS's there for any ZXE Rev Nr's older than R 2.1. I collected the update files at least a month ago; I suppose I could go to "my forums" and look it up. There was a "more" link at the bottom right of a web page in a very tiny font that I missed until someone told me to look for it!