New Asus P4S533 setting my p4 1.6a at 1.8v by default...

[beni]

My new P4S533 and new retail P4 1.6a seem to be having issues. I'm getting a consistent stop error trying to boot into WinXP (even safe mode), but this could possibly be a hard drive issue because I successfully booted into a rescue console from my XP cdrom. However, my main concern at this point is that the motherboard is reporting 1.8V going to the cpu and the only manual options it gives me are 1.75V and up. Default for the northwood processors is 1.5V, right? I'm positive this is a northwood chip, since I just opened the retail package up. Has anybody seen this before or know how to fix it?

thanks,
Beni

 

[Budman]

How much cache does the chip have?

If it's 256k then it's not a northwood,if it's 512k then it's a northy.

 

[Occifer]

Yup, sounds like you got a Willy

 

[jiffylube1024]

Yeah it definately sounds like you have a Williamette. Use SiSoftSandra or WCPUID (or just your BIOS) to tell you if you have 256K cache (williamette) or 512K (northwood).

Also, if you can overclock it to 2.1 GHz or above, you most definately have a Northwood

 

[beni]

Yeah, turns out I'm a moron and ordered the P4 1.6 "special" from Newegg without realizing it wasn't a 1.6a. The weird thing is that the pack date listed on the processor box is 6/28/2002....I thought they weren't making Willamettes anymore....

Anyway, I went to my local computer shop and picked up a 1.8a which is now running at 2400 at default voltage (for less money than newegg wants for a 1.6a now).

The 1.6 that I had did boot fine at 2.13Ghz though....of course my hard drive was creating stop errors in the middle of my boot process until I replaced it today so the chip never ran for long at that speed, but I wonder if it would have.