CPU running slow?

[nigebarrett]

I would be grateful for any advise regarding this......why is my AMD Athlon XP2400+ only running at 500MHZ on all the speed tests I have carried out? The pc is only a few months old and has a A7V8X motherboard. Windows XP and 512 MB ram. Could I have adjusted/downloaded something which might have effected this? As I said ANY advice on this would be very much appreciated.

Regards

 

[Duvie]

What do the temps look like??? I am not 100% familar with amd boards of late but I ran into an amd board not to long ago that had a thermal throttling feature in the bios and it was literally throttling the chip since I think the sensor was turned off in the bios....I enabled sensor and turned throtle to 87.5% and problem went away....In this case I assumed the mobo took the fact it was disbled but the throttling % was set as something was wrong and implemented it....


Just a shot in the dark......

Try setting everything back to defaults in the bios and look at those temps....


What programs are you looking at to determine speed of 500mhz???? Sandra benches???

 

[nigebarrett]

Thanks for the info, I will look into that.......I have run a couple of different tests. The best one seems to be PC Wizard experience which gives loads of info. I am not clever enough to make sense of what it tells me other than the benchmark comparisons, which says my system is much the same in terms of performance as an Intell pentium 3 500 mhz. Thanks again for your help........will let you know how I get on.

Regards

 

[pspada]

Maybe the fastest chip available at the time the test was created was a P3 500, so that's the best performing chip it can display?

 

[Goose77]

can you give a bit more information, whats your Multiplier at? vcore volts? etc.-on bios settings. have you tried running wcpuid? what does the boot screen show (as proc speed) on boot up? try to throw up as much info as you can, does it feel like its running slow?? what did the speed tests show?? etc.


edit: oh and duve, i think that the throttling option was only for mobile athlons, i could be wrong, but i dont think that any destop board should have that option.

 

[pspada]

Originally posted by: Goose77
can you give a bit more information, whats your Multiplier at? vcore volts? etc.-on bios settings. have you tried running wcpuid? what does the boot screen show (as proc speed) on boot up? try to throw up as much info as you can, does it feel like its running slow?? what did the speed tests show?? etc.

edit: oh and duve, i think that the throttling option was only for mobile athlons, i could be wrong, but i dont think that any destop board should have that option.

Of course, if you'd rather just write down this info for us, you don't have to throw it up if you don't want.

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

i cant beleive no one said this yet
go to google (or maybe the 1st thread at the top of this section has it too?) and dlownload wcpuid
it will tell you waht speed its at

 

[NYHoustonman]

Only, it looks like somebody did ...

have you tried running wcpuid?

 

[pspada]

Or better yet try CPUz, which actually works instead of rebooting my PC when I try to run it, like wpcuid.

 

[nigebarrett]

Many many thanks for all your responses.........I have gone into the bios setting and found the cpu speed set at 1500 mhz, as the processor is a 2400 I thought I would try upping it to the next option which was 2000. The system just hung, so I set it back to 1500 and it booted up without any problems, now when I carry out a speed test it has gone up to 1500.1, the multiplier is 15, fsb 100, bus speed 200, voltage is 1.744. I cant find anything about temps. I can only asume that somehow I have now reset the bios and it seems to be working fine. Is that the settings you would expect to see from an AMD Athlon (TM) XP2400+ ? Again thanks for your time in replying (speed tests carried out with CPU-Z and PC wizard experience edition)

Regards

 

[zShowtimez]

Set your FSB to 133

 

[nigebarrett]

Hi thanks for the info...........I have gone into the bios under "advanced" and found the following settings, CPU speed 1500MHZ, CPU frequency multiple *15, CPU external frequency 100/33, and the memory frequency is set to auto, in the "help" column it says to make adjustments to the first four itmes the motherboard must be set to "jumperfree" (dont know what that means). Am I in the right place to try and alter the FSB? If I change the CPU frequency to 2000 mhz the CPU external frequency changes to 133......(but it wont boot set to 2000 mhz). Is there a quicker way to do what you suggested? (Bios is ..award software ACPI bios revision 1005 28/08/02)

Thanks again and regards