need help with xp2500+

[Brackus2]

I finally bought new parts to make a new system.

I have: xp2500+ non mobile
ASrock K7S41GX mobo
256mb pc3200 ram
geforce4 ti 4200
generic otehr parts/drives

I just recently installed win xp with a clean hd.

My issue: My processor is showing up as 1100 mhz (100x11.0) in the start up screen, and during futuremark benchmarks as well. I believe its running like that as well cause my hd has never been this clean, i used to have an old mobo with a thunderbird 1.2 underclocked to 1.1, 256 pc133 ram, and same everything else. Nothing has ever been overclocked, but now when i run 3dmark2003 my score is a little slower still than it was a year ago with the crap parts.

My question, how do I fix this exactly, i bet this isnt the first time its come up but still.... I have downloaded some driver app for winxp from amd's site, and ive checked asrock's site, the only other thing i can think of is to get the new bios from asrocks site, and go through all the steps there, but this seems a little complicated and dangerous as ive went the last 2 months with no comp at all, and I just want this thing to run like it was made to run.

P.S. I am also trying to have this machine run doom3, i dont think with 1172 3dmark2003 pts I will make it

Thanks for any help,

Dustin

 

[Fern]

Go into bios and set your FSB speed to 166. That'll put it up to 2500+ speeds. I'm a little surprised the mobo didn't auto set it correctly.

You didn't mention the motherboard/chipset drivers - got those in and updated too?

EDIT: That mobo may have jumpers on it to change the FSB speed. Better have a look at your mobo manual.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Update to the latest BIOS and use the correct FSB and multiplier values for the Barton chip. That chip is severely underclocked at 1100mhz.

The default speed of the non-mobile 2500+ is 1.83Ghz, using a multiplier of 11.0x and FSB of 166 (11x166=1830).

 

[Brackus2]

alright im gonna try the bios update found on this page here:
http://www.asrock.com/support/index_BIOS_INS.htm

im a little worried about flash.exe and i dont even know if i could do the boot disk thing properly, but unless anyone has some tips for me, or thinks that I could maybe finally jack up the speed of my proc with a volcano9 running max on it and possbily my ti4200 thats at only stock speeds, and will any of this with my mobo only supporting ddr333mhz and bus i believe that i will benefit from any of these oc's?

(note, currently room is around 27celcius, cpuis around 43under normal load so far at 1100 mhz )

any replies welcome,

Dustin

 

[Brackus2]

*bump

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: Fern
Go into bios and set your FSB speed to 166. That'll put it up to 2500+ speeds. I'm a little surprised the mobo didn't auto set it correctly.

You didn't mention the motherboard/chipset drivers - got those in and updated too?

EDIT: That mobo may have jumpers on it to change the FSB speed. Better have a look at your mobo manual.

do like he says,go into your bios & set your fsb from 100mhz to 166mhz.

 

[Delorian]

The motherboard may have a "safety" feature that can force a 100Mhz FSB. If changing the BIOS setting doesn't help, check your board for such jumpers.

 

[Brackus2]

it has the jumpers, im gonna switch as soon as i turn my comp off

ill reply if anything goes wrong...