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Old April 7th 04, 09:18 PM
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Setting it past 133 is definitely overclocking.
Were you to simply set the bios to166 and not change the multi, I doubt it
would even boot. XP2400s typically don't do well above about 2300, excepting
with voltage modifications and extreme cooling. They come designed to run at
15 (multi) x 133fsb
This being a new experience for you, the world is your oyster. Just remember
in any and all overclocking attempts to err on the side of sanity and always
watch temps.

Regards,

Garry


"Sean Berry" wrote in message
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I have an MSI K7N2 Delta Board.

It was indeed the jumper which had two options for settings, 133 or 100.
When I changed the jumper, I lost my video.
I changed back and entered the BIOS and changed it manually in the BIOS to
133 then shutdown, changed the jumper, and all is good now.

Thanks very much to all of you who pointed out my seemingly obvious

mistake.

I only took one course in school to do with ECE so I do not know hardware
all that well.
When I enter the BIOS I have the option to set the FSB to 100, 133, 166,

or
200. Is setting it higher than 133 overclocking?

Thanks.


Peter van der Goes wrote in message
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"Sean Berry" wrote in message
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Sorry if this question doesn't belong here, but I figured someone

could
help.

I bought an OEM AMD Athlon XP 2400+ processor from a local computer

store
yesterday.

I am going to primarily run FreeBSD on it, but tried it with XP just

for
kicks. When I right clicked the "My Computer" icon and went to

properties
it says under "Computer":

AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+
1.49 GHz
1.00 GB of RAM

So, I ran wcpuid and it came up with:
Processor: AMD Athlon XP (Model 8)
Name String: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+

What gives???
Did I get ripped off, and do I now need to set some people staight?

Any help here is greatly appreciated.

All the previous answers offer good advice, *if* you have a motherboard

that
supports 133MHz FSB (some older Socket A motherboards don't) and your

memory
is capable of running at 133MHz (266 DDR).
So, post back with motherboard make/model/chipset if the board is older,

and
confirm that you are running PC2100 memory, minimum. You'll also want to
check your motherboard manual to see if it has a jumper for setting FSB.