I've bought a new system and i told my vendor that i want AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Processor. Now my system bios shows the speed of my processor is 1100Ghz, Is this is the speed of AMD Athlon XP 2500+? how can i recognise that my processor is realy 2500+ because my board doesn't show the 2500+ logo it's only shows the processor speed so please guide me it's realy important because i've paid the price of AMD Athlon XP 2500+ but this is confirm that my processor is Athlon XP but the speed isn't confirm. I'll be greatly thankful to you people
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First verify with your vendor that they actually sent you a XP2500 CPU, if ok then get ahold of the BIOS setup guide and do the apropriate settings in the bios to tune the system for your processor.
WARNING this might destroy your CPU/MOBO if its infact a 1100GhZ CPU, and therefore check with your vendor about waranty and advice!
Mattis
Your Athlon 2500+ should be running on a 333Mhz system bus. It is set to a 200Mhz system bus. Look in your BIOS to see if the setting is there. If it isn't, there will be a jumper on your motherboard you can switch (probably want it set to "auto"). Whoever built your system didn't check it or verify the configuration, but it's a fairly simple step. If you need help setting the system bus speed, contact your manufacturer and ask them how to set it.
zee110, what you need to do is go into your system setup (usually by pressing F10) and in your cpu setup page you need to set the Frequency (FSB) to 166MHz.
Currently it's set to 100MHz.
the XP2500+ is meant to run at 11 x 166MHz, yours is running 11 x 100MHz.
For reference, here's AMD XP cpu's and their settings:
Athlon XP 3200+ Barton 400.. 2.200GHz ..... 11.0 x 200
Athlon XP 3000+ Barton 400.. 2.100GHz ..... 10.5 x 200
Athlon XP 3000+ Barton 333.. 2.167GHz ..... 13.0 x 166
Athlon XP 2800+ Barton 333.. 2.083GHz ..... 12.5 x 166
Athlon XP 2800+ 333MHz...... 2.250GHz ..... 13.5 x 166
Athlon XP 2700+ 333MHz...... 2.167GHz ..... 13.0 x 166
Athlon XP 2600+ 333MHz...... 2.083GHz ..... 12.5 x 166
Athlon XP 2600+ 266MHz...... 2.13GHz ..... 16.0 x 133
Athlon XP 2500+ Barton 333.. 1.83GHz ..... 11.0 x 166
Athlon XP 2400+ 266MHz...... 2.00GHz ..... 15.0 x 133
Athlon XP 2200+ 266MHz...... 1.80GHz ..... 13.5 x 133
Athlon XP 2100+ 266MHz...... 1.73GHz ..... 13.0 x 133
Athlon XP 2000+ 266MHz...... 1.67GHz ..... 12.5 x 133
Athlon XP 1900+ 266MHz...... 1.60GHz ..... 12.0 x 133
Athlon XP 1800+ 266MHz...... 1.53GHz ..... 11.5 x 133
Athlon XP 1700+ 266MHz...... 1.47GHz ..... 11.0 x 133
Athlon XP 1600+ 266MHz...... 1.40GHz ..... 10.5 x 133
Athlon XP 1500+ 266MHz...... 1.33GHz ..... 10.0 x 133
Along with AlbertaBeef's list you can use this free utility
http://www.aida32.hu/aida-
Your CPU's front side bus is set to 100MHz, it needs to be set to 166 as Alberta says above, CPU speed is dictated by FSB and Clock Multiplier which is the 11 x 166 figure on Alberta's diagram, all you need to worry about is setting the FSB (or CPU Speed as it is comonly called in the BIOS) to 166MHz.
Depending on your mainboard you will find this setting in the BIOS under CPU PnP Setup, Frequency and Voltage Control or if it is a recent ASUS board then under the Advanced tab and CPU configuration.
If that is not available then read your manual and look for a jumper setting on the mainboard.
In my opinion none of you should get the points since you did not ask the questionaire to verify the writing on the CPU/box or contact vendor, in these days of warranty problems thats the first thing to check.. But thats just my $.02..
As for anyone searching this in the future, do a check, even if this is a common thing as the contributors to this string says!
Regards
Mattis
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by: zee110Posted on 2004-02-21 at 23:47:48ID: 10424410
Help Plz!