My 2800+ Sempron became a 1500+ Athlon XP???

ATIorNvidia · 16 May 2009 at 18:03

I've just turned my old PC on for the first time in about a year, which uses a Sempon 2800+ (2.0GHz) T-bred Processor. Now suddenly the processor has changed itself into a Athlon XP 1500+ (1.33 GHz) ??? It says this in the BIOS, and in CPU-Z, and feels much slower than it used to be, how did this happen?

Motherboard: Asus A7S8X-MX.

lee87 · 16 May 2009 at 18:12

The bios has probably been reset.

Check in the bios if the cpu multiplier and FSB is correct.
The multiplier should be 12 and FSB should be 333mhz.

ATIorNvidia · 16 May 2009 at 18:21

Problem is, I have no options in the BIOS to alter the FSB/Multi or anything like that, only RAM.

ATIorNvidia · 18 May 2009 at 15:55

Bump...

El_Watcher · 18 May 2009 at 16:09

1) Try updating to the latest BIOS (1007).

2) Try resetting the BIOS.

3) Check the FSB jumpers.

4) Buy a new board.

Naffa · 18 May 2009 at 16:24

I'd also say update the BIOS and CPU-Z. The last time I had a similar problem, it was due to them being out of date.

ATIorNvidia · 18 May 2009 at 16:27

As it's a relatively old Motherboard, wouldn't I need to flash it using a Floppy Drive/Disk, I don't have nor do I know anybody with a Floppy :/

Is there another way?