Abit NF7-S (Not rev 2) + Athlon 3200 Xp boot problems

Hi

I have had this Abit NF7-S motherboard for a year and a half now which used
to ru na Athlon 2700 XP 333 FSB with 1024 MB of Kingston 3200 DDR memory.

But recently I bought an Athlon 3200+ XP processor and went to install it
today. However upon going into the bio and into Softmenu 3 the processor
reports as an Athlon 2500 XP.

So when I select the 3200 XP option and the FSb is auto set to 400 MHz upon
onrestarting the PC will now not boot into Windows XP.

I know this processor works as my friend has the same processor and
motherboard and it has worked perfectly.

I have service pack 2 installed also. I have never updated the boards bios
either.

I was wandering if anyone might know what is wrong. I know the original
version doesnt officially support 400 FSB but as my mate has had it working
for over a year I cant see what problem there is.

Does anyone have any help?

Thankyou

Paul Graham

Others may add better advice, since I don't have this board...

A couple of things to note. It could be a wide variety of problems
though. To see if it speed related, as a test reduce the FSB to 166
MHz (instead of 200 MHz) and see if things start working. Also, on
some motherboards if the cpu "multiplier" is not set right, with a
newer locked cpu, it won't boot.

Forrest

Motherboard Help By HAL web site:
http://home.comcast.net/~mobo.help/


On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 17:42:01 -0000, "Tahys"
wrote:

Hi

I have had this Abit NF7-S motherboard for a year and a half now which used
to ru na Athlon 2700 XP 333 FSB with 1024 MB of Kingston 3200 DDR memory.

But recently I bought an Athlon 3200+ XP processor and went to install it
today. However upon going into the bio and into Softmenu 3 the processor
reports as an Athlon 2500 XP.

So when I select the 3200 XP option and the FSb is auto set to 400 MHz upon
onrestarting the PC will now not boot into Windows XP.

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