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proccessor has slowed down

eric.51

eric.51

eric.51

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i have a machine about 3 years old which was amd xp2800....about 3 weeks ago i noticed everything was getting very slow. i put it down to my disk very full of rubbish load of progs installed. that was untill today when i did a check to find the proccesor is running at 1200 it even says this the in bios. what can cause this .....can someone help me.
eric
 
thanks guys but ive been in the bios......amibios setup utility ver 3.31....it gives the usual time date flopy ide devices which i can access the rest i cant as it will not arrow down to any of the others it just twlls me bios v is k7s8x as is the motherboard proc type , speed,cache sizeand mem....ive checked motherboard book says fsb should be 333 but i cant tell in the bios ive checked all the other sections in bios but they all just the usual things.
eric
 
do u mean resetting the bios defaults if thats what u mean no i havnt but i was going to give that a try but i want to get my stuff of the system first before i mess about with anything...tnk again talkie
eric
 
cheers talkie... i tries restting defaults but made no diff ill try the cmos next and ive never flashed the bios before so i wouldnt know what to do but ill need to try summit or its for the bin
 
hi dg thank but ive tried all these things still the same i think im going to have to investigate this flashing the bios as i said earlier ive never done it so anything is worth a try as its oviously an old bios version cheers anyway eric
 
hi deco had a look at ** 2 options and thought oh dear dont fancy doin no 2 as i have the manual on disk for m/board and would have been a bit scary but the good news i tries option 1 first and bingo all i had to do was change from jumper to manual it was already set at 166mhz rebooteed and running at 2.09 which is about right for a xp 2800 i think many thanks to all who helped and again well done deco. the last thing i would like to know is ..... what would cause this to happen cause i certainld change anything in dbios eric
 
back again problem still exists. tried changing battery but sometimes machine boots up at xp 1250 other times as xp 2800 if i go in and change the host frequescy setting to manual from jumpers. it sometimes when booting up says the frequency setting is not working hit f2 to change settings or 10sec to reset bios defaults then i get 2 beeps instead of 1 beep when booting up. i can tell whether its going to run at 2800 or 1250 by the time it takes to load windows
 
Can only get it to run as xp 2800 occasionally and when it does its ok even after numerous reboots but as soon as switch it off for any lenght of time ir reverts back to xp 1250 will flashing the bios work or is it a nackered mboard or processor
eric
 
tnx for ** comment viking great help....anyway flashed the bios made no diff i tried setting the host controller to manual and took out the jumpers and it is running at 2200 xp running at 133mhz. seems very stable even after a period unplugged. so tried putting jumpers back in and run at 166 mhz some times boots at 2800 xp sometimes at 1250 xp nearly always at 1250 when off for half an hour so anyone else with any ideas done all of above cleared cmos flashed bios changed battery set jumpers to manual???????????
 
do i have to open the psu to change the vcore voltage to 1.7 and btw tnx for help this driving me bloddy mad ive spent dayds on this ill maybee end up just taking the jumpers out and run it at 2200 at 133mhz
 
been in there could find anything for changing it only the system hardware monitor which only allows me to see the running voltages and the temps but none are highlighted to let me change
 
yeah gh wouldnt know how so wouldnt even try ive realy down to 3 choices get it all runnin and leave on 24/7 or have the pain of havin to watch it boot up and if its showing 2800xp goin to bios reset then do 2 boots or 3 take jumpers out and just run it 2200 xp at 133mhz oh there is option four....... a bloddy big hammer and get one last piece of fun
eric
 
hi guys hows about this then. if i switch on machine from cold it always shows the procc being an xp 1250. if i continue to let windows load and run for about 2 or 3 mis and do start \shutdown\ restart it will reboot as xp 2800 if i then switch off for 3 or 4 mins it will again boot up as xp 1250. ive done this test about 10 times and every time i get the same result every time its cold =1250 every time its warm=2800 . this tells me the system will only work at 2800 if the system is warm or is it just coincedence??????. so anyone got any ideas what part it might be that needs to warm to make it all work. i didnt think it was the power supply as would probably take more than a couple of mins to cool down. the procc sounds the most likely culprit but whats the thought out there.
eric
 
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