2500 Barton KX-7 333R

Just wondering. Has anyone here been able to get an Athlon 2500 Barton
running in an Abit KX-7 333R? I've tried a number of clock speeds but so
far, no post. Oh, I did get it to post once, but then XP pro blue screened
during the install. Thanks.

"Satan's Little Sister" wrote in message
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Thus spake Gerbil Madness:

Just wondering. Has anyone here been able to get an Athlon 2500 Barton
running in an Abit KX-7 333R?

I'm running a Barton in mine. It's the version 1.0 board and still has
the original 7M BIOS. Just popped it in, cleared the CMOS, POSTed to
BIOS, and set my speed.

The CPU isn't recognized by the board, and is declared to be an
"Unknown CPU type", but it runs quite happily at 11.5x195, 1.775 V.

What board version and BIOS do you have? What have you tried?

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sls

I'm not sure of the board version(1.1?) but the bios is 6.0 PG, dated
08/22/02(I thought it was the latest). I haven't tried ramping it up to 195
nor have I stripped it to just the cpu/mem and video. I have 2 -512 Meg
pc2700 Samsung memory DIMMS (not the greatest but stable). I also have a
raid0 setup. I would like to do this without getting a new mobo and with
luck just doing a repair install of XP pro.

Thus spake Gerbil Madness:

I'm not sure of the board version(1.1?) but the bios is 6.0 PG, dated
08/22/02(I thought it was the latest). I haven't tried ramping it up to 195
nor have I stripped it to just the cpu/mem and video. I have 2 -512 Meg
pc2700 Samsung memory DIMMS (not the greatest but stable). I also have a
raid0 setup. I would like to do this without getting a new mobo and with
luck just doing a repair install of XP pro.

Okay, an 8/22/02 BIOS date means it's the B6 BIOS, which is the latest
one. It also implies that you have the v1.1 board, unless you flashed
to that BIOS yourself. Good.

I re-read your first message, and am a bit confused. You said you only
managed to POST once, yet have tried different clock settings. ??!
POST is short for Power On Self Test, it's only the stuff up 'til you
get chance to enter BIOS. Can you get to BIOS to set it up?

Is it just Windows that fails to boot? Can you boot from a floppy? One
with, say, Memtest86 on it? http://www.memtest86.com/ Can you boot
with you Windows CD?

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sls

Thus spake Gerbil Madness:

Maybe
I'm missing another setting in the BIOS because XP just doesn't seem to like
the ones I have. Keep in mind that this is a CPU upgrade not a new install,
I've been running an OC'd 1800+ for about 6 months.

The swapping any one of the settings for APIC, ACPI, or PnP OS will
give WinXP fits. If you had one of them one way before and the other
way now...

You might want to try underclocking, to see if it's a CPU or software
problem. Heatsink on correctly, temps okay?

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sls

"Satan's Little Sister" wrote in message
...
Thus spake Gerbil Madness:

Maybe
I'm missing another setting in the BIOS because XP just doesn't seem to
like
the ones I have. Keep in mind that this is a CPU upgrade not a new
install,
I've been running an OC'd 1800+ for about 6 months.

The swapping any one of the settings for APIC, ACPI, or PnP OS will
give WinXP fits. If you had one of them one way before and the other
way now...

You might want to try underclocking, to see if it's a CPU or software
problem. Heatsink on correctly, temps okay?

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sls
Thanks, I finally got it. Had to set the ratio to 5:2:1 and yank out a stick
of cheaper Kingston memory. So far it's running well at 166 X 11 @ 1.7
vcore. It runs about 3 degrees hotter than my old 1800+ (41 Cent) but I may
redo the HSF and theral paste. I'll worry about oc'ing later on.

Thus spake Gerbil Madness:

I finally got it. Had to set the ratio to 5:2:1

Ha ha, that's funny! I've had my problems with forgetting to set that,
too. Killed a sound card with a FSB of 189 and 4:2:1 ratio. Hmmm,
Google should have the thread somewhere...

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sls