On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:43:52 -0400, "Todd Brooks"
wrote:

Hi,

I assume you mean A7V333. I have this board as well. On the website you can
see info on BIOS revisions and CPU support. From the website, Athlon XP
3000+(333 MHZ FSB)(Model 10)(Barton) is supported since BIOS revision 1016:

http://www.asus.com.tw/support/cpusu...pusupport.aspx

HTH

Note on the support page that there are different PCB revisions.
As someone who has two earlier revisions, I note that stability
improved with 1.04 but particularly 2.0 with higher speed
Bartons. Although earlier revisions than 2.0 "appear" from their
chart to not support 166MHz (DDR333) FSB CPUs, the issues is
larger than that, as my 1.01 board had been running a T'Bred B @
166MHz FSB & Mem since day 1, but wasn't stable enough with a
Barton at same FSB speed even at same total frequency & voltage.

I like A7V333, but frankly I'd upgrade the motherboard before
upgrading an XP2500 to an XP3000. Although, I wouldn't buy
another socket A for just that small of a CPU upgrade, not cost
effective. Also consider that some users report bios v. 1016
more stable than 1017. At worst it might not report the AMD
nomenclature in "XP(nnnn)" speed, instead just displaying MHz,
though I expect even bios 1016 does include the XP(nnnn) ID,
which is part of the significance of it supporting the CPUs, as
that was AMD's goal, to display CPU name in bios instead of
frequency.