Need help setting up my bios

[Begbiez]

I just bought an Abit NF7-S V.2 and an AMD Mobile 2600+ with a Thermaltake Silent Boost HS/Fan. I'm using old memory from my last system 2x256MB PC2700, one question, is there anyway of testing the memory to see if it is really PC2700 because when the bios starts up it detects it as only 133mhz not 167mhz. I bought them seperately over the course of my last computer and I think that one of the stores might have sold me a PC2100 as a PC2700. When I installed the cpu I didn't look at the stepping so I don't know what it is.
When I first ran my computer it was running fine at 167x14 (2338) with the cpu volts at 1.6 then I decided to updated the bios to the latest one because one of the reasons was that in the bios it showed the cpu as a "Unknown Processor" well when I rebooted with the same settings win XP wouldn't boot it would say "couldn't load c:/windows.....ntfs.sys" or something to that extent. so I lowered the settings using the default cpu volts and the best I can find it runs on now is 150x16 and even at that my pc locks up sometimes. I really need some help I'll try anything I'm even thinking of going back to the old bios but I really want to do that as a last resort. I appreciatte any help I get
Thanks
Begbie

 

[magratton]

If you can get into windows the CPUz will investigate each of the RAM chips separately and tell you what the settings are in the SPD data on the RAM itself. The option to do this is on the last tab in the CPUz interface.

 

[Begbiez]

Yea I got ripped off by 2 seperate stores. I just ran Everest Home Edition and it says that both of them are PC2100. Here are the properties

Module Name Samsung M3 68L3313CT1-CB0
Serial Number 234F0006h
Module Size 256 MB (2 rows, 4 banks)
Module Type Unbuffered
Memory Type DDR SDRAM
Memory Speed PC2100 (133 MHz)
Module Width 64 bit
Module Voltage SSTL 2.5
Error Detection Method None
Refresh Rate Normal (15.625 us), Self-Refresh
Highest CAS Latency 2.5 (7.5 ns @ 133 MHz)
2nd Highest CAS Latency 2.0 (10.0 ns @ 100 MHz)

Memory Module Features
Early RAS# Precharge Not Supported
Auto-Precharge Not Supported
Precharge All Not Supported
Write1/Read Burst Not Supported
Buffered Address/Control Inputs Not Supported
Registered Address/Control Inputs Not Supported
On-Card PLL (Clock) Not Supported
Buffered DQMB Inputs Not Supported
Registered DQMB Inputs Not Supported
Differential Clock Input Supported
Redundant Row Address Not Supported

Second DIMM

Generic
Serial Number None
Module Size 256 MB (1 rows, 4 banks)
Module Type Unbuffered
Memory Type DDR SDRAM
Memory Speed PC2100 (133 MHz)
Module Width 64 bit
Module Voltage SSTL 2.5
Error Detection Method None
Refresh Rate Reduced (7.8 us), Self-Refresh
Highest CAS Latency 2.5 (7.5 ns @ 133 MHz)
2nd Highest CAS Latency 2.0 (10.0 ns @ 100 MHz)

Memory Module Features
Early RAS# Precharge Not Supported
Auto-Precharge Not Supported
Precharge All Not Supported
Write1/Read Burst Not Supported
Buffered Address/Control Inputs Not Supported
Registered Address/Control Inputs Not Supported
On-Card PLL (Clock) Not Supported
Buffered DQMB Inputs Not Supported
Registered DQMB Inputs Not Supported
Differential Clock Input Supported
Redundant Row Address Not Supported

 

[Zrl201]

I have the same board - make sure you enabled cpu interface in the softmenu in bios. Try booting up again with "cpu interface" enabled.

 

[Begbiez]

The thing is before I changed my bios I had these running at 167 so I know theyre capable of that.

 

[Begbiez]

Also just to add I want to overclock this system as much as possible