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MB not recognizing processor properly

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xEagle1x

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I hope I'm in the right forum.

I recently built a couple low end machines for my kids. Each are identical. PC100 SS7 M599LMR, AMD K6-2 450's, 128RAM, W/98SE using the built in sound and graphics. They are perfect for the kids (young) needs right now and even play alot of their games fine. But I have one problem machine.

I cannot get this one system to recognize the processor as a 100/450. It will only boot at 66/166 and is obviously slow as molassis and won't run the games like the others. I cannot for the life of me figure out why. The bios, windows (including patches and updates), hardware, software, everything are set exactly the same on all machines. But this one machine will not do the right thing. I even tried the processor on one of the other machines to check it and it is fine.

I have researched everywhere I can think of. Because these boards are older the search references tend to be too. I know these boards can be finicky but there has to be something I'm either missing or a trick out there I don't know about. I tried the alleged patch made for this problem and nada. Can't get it to load. I know I can't be the first to have this happen so there must be a way to fix it. I'm just not sure if it is windows or the board that is the main problem.

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated especially from the daughter who wants to play SimCoaster on her computer. Sure hope I put this in the right forum. Forgive me if I didn't.

Thanks in advance
 
Question 1: Does this board use jumpers or does it use a soft menu for cpu set up?

Question 2: Does windows keep accurate time?

If it uses a soft menu for cpu set up and windows is not keeping accurate time; then the battery could be dead.

Just a guess.
 
It has limited jumpers and relies on a soft menu. I changed the battery already just in case. Everything works except at 66/166 level instead of 100/450 which is affecting only the installed games that need the larger processor. Eveything else just runs slower.
 
You could try flashing the BIOS since it could be corrupted. OR perhaps try load setup defaults.
 
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