ASUS A7V Motherboard HELP....

[lxyang02smu]

Hey Computer gurus...
Just needed to upgrade my old computer. I recently purchased a Athlon Thunderbird 1.3 GHZ chip.
Am I able to use this on my old Asus A7V (Original release)?? Can someone walk me through this process (FSB setting, clock mutliplier, and voltage).
Sorry about the "newbie" post - been to long since I last worked on computers 🙂

 

[oustedone]

make sure you have the latest BIOS and you shouldn't have to set anything. The board should detect that CPU and the correct FSB etc. Clear the CMOS before powering up. Good Luck!

 

[Doua]

Originally posted by: oustedone
make sure you have the latest BIOS and you shouldn't have to set anything. The board should detect that CPU and the correct FSB etc. Clear the CMOS before powering up. Good Luck!

Oustedone... so you're saying that with the latest bios for the Asus A7V, it turns the motherboard into a jumperless board, like the Abit KT7 counterpart??

 

[CraigRT]

You can use the CPU without doing too much if it's a 200FSB chip. if it's a 266 FSB chip (1.33) then you are not going to have much luck.. hope this helps.

 

[Doua]

Originally posted by: Doua

Originally posted by: oustedone
make sure you have the latest BIOS and you shouldn't have to set anything. The board should detect that CPU and the correct FSB etc. Clear the CMOS before powering up. Good Luck!

Oustedone... so you're saying that with the latest bios for the Asus A7V, it turns the motherboard into a jumperless board, like the Abit KT7 counterpart??

Bump.... anyone!?

 

[NicColt]

>if it's a 266 FSB chip (1.33) then you are not going to have much luck

it's no problem at all.... I've been using this board since it came out, and yes the original A7V. I started with a Duron 650 but then changed it to a 1.33 266 FSB cpu with no problem whatsoever. The board will just read it as 13x100 for 1300. Even if you use PC133 it will read it as PC100. The updated bios is jumperless but I did lock it with the dipp switches at 13x100.

My god has it been four years ??? and I have it running with the original AIW Radeon that I have had over three years now. Man this board is kickass rock solid and I'm cracking 24/7. But it will soon go, my upgrade date is before September 30th : )

 

[Soulkeeper]

i like my a7v, see sig
a 1.3 is fully supported

 

[Doua]

Originally posted by: NicColt
>if it's a 266 FSB chip (1.33) then you are not going to have much luck

it's no problem at all.... I've been using this board since it came out, and yes the original A7V. I started with a Duron 650 but then changed it to a 1.33 266 FSB cpu with no problem whatsoever. The board will just read it as 13x100 for 1300. Even if you use PC133 it will read it as PC100. The updated bios is jumperless but I did lock it with the dipp switches at 13x100.

My god has it been four years ??? and I have it running with the original AIW Radeon that I have had over three years now. Man this board is kickass rock solid and I'm cracking 24/7. But it will soon go, my upgrade date is before September 30th : )

Congrats and Thanks!
You answered all my questions all in one post 🙂

 

[NicColt]

Soulkeeper how can you run pc133 @ 144 and a t-bred @2.1ghz on an A7V ? I don't think that's possible. The Max this board could do is 14x100 and you need a miracle to run it at 14x107. You must have a A7V133 or something.

 

[sirfergy]

I have a TBred running at 1.92GHz on mine. All you do is pop the 5th L3 bridge so that 8 is added to the multiplier set in the bios. I am running 19 X 100. 🙂

 

[GoHAnSoN]

yup, pop the 5th L3 bridge.
i'm running 20x100 @ default voltage , Tbred B

 

[Soulkeeper]

no that's my mem speed
my fsb is running async it runs faster that way on the kt133