I recently aquired an Athlon XP 1800+ from my friend and decided to put it in my machine. I installed it right, the machine posts but then the problems begin. I set the processor to run at the dafault 1533mhz. Saved the BIOS settings, when it went to restart there was nothing displayed on the monitors ( dual monitor setup ). I turned it off and then back on, got into the BIOS and it had a message to check the processor speed as it caused it to crash after the restart. Checked the speed, it was set to where it was supposed to be. Tried it a few more times with the same result. After some google'ing I decided to try a small aresenal of things.
1.) Check BIOS version. It is latest non-beta version
2.) Make sure power supply is strong enough. I assume 430w is.
3.) Try different ram. I switched it out for 3 different ram sticks, one from crucial the other is kingston.
4.) Try changing all the settings in the BIOS that I can change. No effect.
5.) Screw around with FSB. I decided to set the FSB lower. After I got to 122mhz FSB it works. Not exactly ideal, i got the 1800+ so that I could run it at full speed.
6.) Try setting speed with jumpers instead of bios. Nothing.
7.) Make sure CPU isn't to hot. It's on the warmer side but 120F isn't all that bad. I've ran at 144F before.
That's why I turn to you guys ( and gals ). I'm completely out of ideas as to why it wont work. I plan on calling AMD and ASUS tommorow but I am looking for a more informed answer from you guys. If you have any clues as to what it might be, if you've seen it before, or just wanna be nice and send me a A7N8X
i'd appreciate any of those.
Thanks,
Mike
1.) Check BIOS version. It is latest non-beta version
2.) Make sure power supply is strong enough. I assume 430w is.
3.) Try different ram. I switched it out for 3 different ram sticks, one from crucial the other is kingston.
4.) Try changing all the settings in the BIOS that I can change. No effect.
5.) Screw around with FSB. I decided to set the FSB lower. After I got to 122mhz FSB it works. Not exactly ideal, i got the 1800+ so that I could run it at full speed.
6.) Try setting speed with jumpers instead of bios. Nothing.
7.) Make sure CPU isn't to hot. It's on the warmer side but 120F isn't all that bad. I've ran at 144F before.
That's why I turn to you guys ( and gals ). I'm completely out of ideas as to why it wont work. I plan on calling AMD and ASUS tommorow but I am looking for a more informed answer from you guys. If you have any clues as to what it might be, if you've seen it before, or just wanna be nice and send me a A7N8X
i'd appreciate any of those.Thanks,
Mike
