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new Athlon 1.2Ghz stuck at 900Mhz.

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jasonja

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I orderd and received a new Athlon 1.2Ghz (266Mhz) from NewEgg. I also got the ECS K7VZA (KT133A) mobo. After hooking it all up the damn thing only comes up at 900Mhz. The chip marking clearly state it's a 1200. After flashing the mobo it still did it. It seems like the mobo/chip is detecting it's FSB at 100Mhz (200) instead of 133Mhz (266) with the multiplier at 9x. This mobo doesn't let you select the FSB, instead it lets you tweek it up a bit but since it's 100Mhz it only lets me tweak it up to 113Mhz, still getting me nowhere near the 1.2Ghz I wanted. I then stuck the CPU in a different mobo and sure 'nough it came up at 900Mhz too. Is my Athlon improperly marked or it's FSB inproperly set at 200 instead of 266? Am I missing something?
 
Did you check the jumper settings in the users manual.

From the ECS website: If your board is V. 3.0 with the VIA 8363A chipset, for 133 MHz FSB, jumper JP9 needs to be on pins 1 & 2 and jumper JP10 needs to be on pins 2 & 3.

The board was probably shipped with jumpers set to 100 MHz FSB for precautionary reasons. Reset the jumpers and good luck.
 
That was the issue, what threw me was that this is a machine for my lil' brother, my ASUS board is totally configurable via the bios so I figured that everyone had moved to the soft setup by now. The kicker was that I stuck it in another mobo and it came up 900Mhz too. It's running at 1200 now, thanks for the help.
 
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