Xp 2400+ issue

[williswoo]

Hi first time posting here on these boards but have been reading for awhile now, I was wondering if anyone could help me I put together a new pc consisting of a amd 2400+ and the new asus A7N8X motherboard, i put it all together and went great intill the very first screen were it says your cpu type it says it is a athlon 1800+ after booting to windows I check under my computer and it says i have an amd athlon 1800+ running at 1.50 GHz I am wondering why it would be saying this at startup and under windows so I take the cpu out and look at it, it says on it 2400 so I'm lost I have had a couple of people tell me its something under bios but no one new how to do it and then I have read that this board should auto detect the speed anyways if somebody could give me some help here on how to fix it so it see's it as a 2400+ I would really appreciate it
Thanks

 

[Bartman39]

I would think you have it running on a 100fsb not the needed 133fsb... 😉

go into the bios and set it for 133fsb instead of 100... 😉 (some boards default to the 100fsb possibly as a safety measure...?)

 

[williswoo]

Thanks a lot that worked great

 

[BigJ]

you'd be suprised at how many people this actually happens to

 

[Budman]

some boards default to the 100fsb possibly as a safety measure...?)

Actualy it's this way because of the Durons that are 100 fsb.

If the boards defaulted to 133mhz you could never get a Duron to even boot up.😉

 

[ThumpR777]

yea, there was a board a few years ago that only loaded at the higher speeds, I cant remember which one, but if you had a slower chip you had to boot it with a fast chip, reset the BIOS, and then put on the slower CPU. A pain for those who thought their board was bad.