NForce 2 board problem

ChurchOfSubgenius

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I just bought a Biostar NForce 2 motherboard for a friend and tossed a unlocked XP 1600 Pally in there running 133 FSB, when I check the proc speed it is 868mhz (or something) so I go to the bios to adjust multiplier (only want stock speed) and I cannot for the life of me find the multiplier adjustment!. I have searched all the frequency adjustments and can't find anything that will change multiplier.
I don't want my friend thinking I ripped him off so I scrape off the unlocking marks and it still shows as 868 mhz (arrggghhh)

What the hell is going on?
 

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I just downloaded and perused the manual and that is without a doubt the most useless and shortest PDF user's manual I've ever seen :disgust: That board has FSB adjustable from 100-200mhz and since a 1600+ has a default multi of 10.5 you must not have cleaned the CPU up enough to return it to it's normal state since 10.5x100 would be 1050mhz. Try clearing the CMOS and cleaning that CPU up some more, if that doesn't work then manually adjust the fsb to whatever you need to to get it near the right clockspeed. I just hope his ram will handle the extra fsb if you need to go past 133mhz since at the moment it looks like you have a multiplier of 8.5.
 

will889

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it's a paly. the reason you don't see mutlipliers is because you have an older palamino. you would have to manually unlock the chip. remove the jclk3 jumper (look at jumper settings on the biostar site - not the online manual but the online jumper settings) you may have to clear cmos also along with the fsb jumper being removed. you can still do a fsb overclock once you at least get it to post correctly, but you may want to manually unlock the bridges, or get an xp2100.
 

ChurchOfSubgenius

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Originally posted by: Hoot
it's a paly. the reason you don't see mutlipliers is because you have an older palamino. you would have to manually unlock the chip. remove the jclk3 jumper (look at jumper settings on the biostar site - not the online manual but the online jumper settings) you may have to clear cmos also along with the fsb jumper being removed. you can still do a fsb overclock once you at least get it to post correctly, but you may want to manually unlock the bridges, or get an xp2100.

It shouldn't matter what processor it is, there should be a multiplier BIOS setting for auto or set. If you read my post you will see that the CPU was unlocked when I put it in, then I scraped off the L1 "jumpers" to relock it (I know I did a good job). I don't give a crap about overclocking it, I want it to run stock speed with no hacks.
I tried the "whoops" jumper and the bios reset, niether one made any difference.

(look at jumper settings on the biostar site - not the online manual but the online jumper settings)

I don't see that, can you link it? all I can find is the PDF useless manual (oh! is that where the CPU goes?)