Need Help with my BIOS settings

[Modeps]

It seems that no one goes to GH anymore, I'm looking for some help. It appears as though my motherboard (Epox 8K5A2+) is not setup properly. My Barton 3000+ is setup and functioning like a 2100+ instead (1733mhz instead of 2167mhz).

It was suggested that the FSB was probably set at 133 instead of 166, which it appears to be, but I cannot find out how to change that. The only place it appears I can update anything related to the CPU is under "Frequency/Voltage Control" where I can change the CPU clock to 166 and the CPU Ratio to X 13... but on reboot, it reverts back to 133 and Auto. Other settings in there are

Auto Detect DIMM/PCI clk ENABLED
Spread Spectrum DISABLED
Watching-Dog Timer ENABLE
Current Voltage 1.700V (default is 1.650V)
DIMM voltage 2.50 V.

Please help.

 

[Mrvile]

...save and quit BIOS?

 

[hjo3]

Check your manual to see if there's a jumper on the mobo for major FSB changes.

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: hjo3
Check your manual to see if there's a jumper on the mobo for major FSB changes.

Checking now... that's a good idea. TY

 

[thomsbrain]

you're gonna think OT is even more worthless when this thread gets locked.

 

[Injury]

IBTN

(still waiting on someone to figure that one out.)

 

[PTCvette]

Originally posted by: hjo3
Check your manual to see if there's a jumper on the mobo for major FSB changes.

That would be my guess... If not that, make sure you are doing save and quit and not just quit when you exit the BIOS.

 

[Crucial]

Originally posted by: Injury
IBTN

(still waiting on someone to figure that one out.)

In Before The Nik?

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: PTCvette

Originally posted by: hjo3
Check your manual to see if there's a jumper on the mobo for major FSB changes.

That would be my guess... If not that, make sure you are doing save and quit and not just quit when you exit the BIOS.

Alright, looks as though the only jumper setting on my mobo is to set the CPU clock to 100 or 133. It's set on 133, but I'm supposed to be able to set it through the bios as well. The reason why it was jumping back to the defaults because what I was doing was considered overclocking and it was failing back to defaults.

Looks like even though I can set the motherboard to the proper settings, it's not liking it at all...

 

[Modeps]

Probably the easiest way to fix this, is to just buy a new motherboard that natively supports the proper FSB. Suggestions on something fairly inexpensive? It needs to have RAID.