Asus A7V + AMD T-Bird 1.1Ghz CPU = 1066Mhz?????

[jayesin]

It may seem as if we're nit-picking, but my office and myself just purchased an Asus A7V, AMD T-Bird 1.1Ghz as well as 256mb of Toshiba PC-133 to use as a midrange server. When we boot the computer up, the BIOS reports the CPU is running at 1066Mhz, rather than the expected 1.1Ghz(aka 1100Mhz or something close to it). Now I know it's only 34Mhz off, but we purchased a 1.1Ghz CPU and expected to get number's close to that(plus a 1.1Ghz cost roughly $200 more than the 1Ghz AMD CPU).
We have the dip switches setup properly(11.0 x 100Mhz), yet we still get 1066Mhz. We dont want to overclock the CPU either. Anyone know what we need to do to get this baby rolling? Or are we stuck waiting for a new motherboard to come out that better supports this specific CPU.

P.S. We also purchased a ATA-100 60GB IBM Hard drive for this system. If we were to setup WinNT WkStn or Server on it, would we need to take the drive off the ATA-100 port and place it on the regular primary IDE port to enable WinNT to recognize it?

Thanks Alot!

 

[chiwawa626]

funny, once when i tryed to clock my 900 @ 1.1, it booted up at 1066 too.
is 1066 the max the board goes? hmm....try updating the bios mabey

 

[dkozloski]

At boot the PC does not report an actual measured CPU speed. It picks the value from a stored table on the basis of what speed it detects instead. An old BIOS may not have a correct choice available in the table so it picks next best, i.e. 1066 vs. 1100. This is why a PC being run with a nonstandard FSB that gives a speed between two legitmate speeds can report different speeds on successive boots if the clock speed drifts only a small amount. In your case it looks like a BIOS update is in order.

 

[RagingGuardian]

A bios update should do the trick. The A7V made it's debut before the 1.1GHz Athlon so I don't think that the original BIOS officially supported the processor.

BTW, why would a company use such a fast processor for a server?

 

[chiwawa626]

where the heck did u find a 1.1, i havent seen em online

 

[fkloster]

Umm, try here!

 

[Jonny]

Hmm..thats weird, I could swear that when I tried my TB 900 at 1.05ghz it booted at 1066.

 

[jayesin]

Funny, we installed NT on it and NT reported the speed in Mhz as 1113Mhz, so all is well. Thanks!

Raging Guardian: I work for a financial data/software company so we need fast CPU's to query massive databases effectively. To be honest, we probably would have been ok with a 700Mhz CPU(which is the speed all our Dells are). On average, about 6 people will be hitting this machine at a time. the Extra Mhz might help a bit.

 

[sleepdragon]

with bios 1003...1100mhz will be display as 1066mhz
with bios 1004...1050mhz will be display as 1066mhz

however, both bios and speed runs fine..if you check the real cpu clock
with software like wcpuid...you will see the correct speed..

just need a minor micro code update i assume..

 

[jinsonxu]

I've been wondering, how come my A7V refuses to allow any multiplier above 10x? Anyone else had this problem?

 

[jayesin]

Chiwawa, we got the CPU/Mobo combo at Monarch Computers

 

[Noriaki]

It's been said, the report at the beginning won't be right, try a BIOS update and if you really want to know, use WCPUID, Grab it here. It's from www.h-oda.com and you can follow the download trail to the other link if you prefer.