I just bought an Athlon XP 2100 and a Gigbyte GA-7VRXP. The CPU is detected as an XP 1500 and the computer crashes a lot. My first thought would be thermal, but I'm getting 95f/36c ish on my temps. That should be kosher. Is the motherboard or the CPU bad?
Gigabyte motherboards like most, come with a jumper that set the FSB to 100, instead of what you want 133. Hopefully that will sortya out
Ah. It has a switch marked "on". I had it in the On posisition. Which is the wrong posistion. It works so far, but I don't have time right now to see if that fixes the crashing. I've got one of those small 120gig drives to partition and format.
Can you also just change the clock up on the BIOS? Thats what I've always done, I've never looked for a jumper. BTW Fronzel, knock the clock up a bit more while you're there a few mhz wont need huge cooling
Just because I like to pretend you care... The RAM was what was bad. I took the time to decipher out the error crash I was getting. It had something to do with trying to page non paged memory. Swapped out the chips and everything worked fine. 1 gig of RAM *****ed. Temps are still at ~38c.
