K7S5A Pro - ECS Mainboard
Brand new retail (from Newegg) Athlon XP 2500 Barton

I think but not sure...
Bios shows XP1700
FSB is set to 133/133
cannot increase the FSB to 166/166
board supports 200/266

is this why I do not see the CPU correctly?

I'm not sure the board supports manual overrides
I have already checked, and have the most recent BIOS version.

Thoughts / Ideas - Upgrade Mobo?

Hi BubbaPrime,

Yeah, that is the reason, the FSB has to be 166 for the bios to read 2500. I
just installed my own and that is what mine was set to.

*drat*
....oh well, guess I can get a new mobo and ebay this one.

Thanks David.



"David Condon" <davidcondon (AT) eastlink (DOT) ca> wrote

I had the same motherboard and processor,

This is what you need to go do,

go into the system bios set to
CPU PnP to 133/133

This being what you said u already did Fryes (Right) might have sold u a bad
processor.

They honor the warranty for 1 year so show them your receipt and get your
processor (And board if they'll do it since it might be a bad board, I've
had a couple bad boards from Elitegroup).

WAIT A SEC, I just realized it's a Bartons Chip, The Bartons don't work with
EliteGRoup MB's so if it is an Elitegroup ditch it and go with a gigabyte.
Works like a champ for me!


"BubbaPrime" <bubbaprime (AT) notreally (DOT) hotmail.com> wrote