I bought a L7S7A2 Motherboard and an AMD 2700+ XP
http://www.ecsusa.com/products/l7s7a2.html. I updated the Bios to the latest
rev from ECS's website.



When the machine boots and starts to post, it only sees the CPU as an AMD
2100+ XP

The system bios are pretty much set to default settings. Has anyone else
had similar issues, is there any thing I can change to have the motherboard
see the CPU as a 2700+



System configuration:

GeForce FX440 128 Meg

256 2700 DDR 333 Ram

40 Gigs HDD

2 CDRom Drives

300W power supply

On board sound, onboard LAN



Thank you in advance



Roland

change the buss speed from 133 to 166



"Knot@Work" <r.w.c. (AT) verizon (DOT) net> wrote

On Sun, 23 May 2004 12:28:20 -0700, "tonys" <aarcuda (AT) lvcm (DOT) com.spam>
wrote:

Or higher (195 or maybe more with a Cheepoman bios)
--

Julian Richards
computer "at" richardsuk.f9.co.uk

XP Home
L7S7A2 motherboard
Powercolor 9800 SE 8 pipelines 438/364 with Omega drivers
1 GB RAM
10 GB + 80 GB HDs
CD+DVD/CDRW drives

I purchased the exact same combo on Ebay and my BIOS is doing the same
thing - AMD XP 2100+ at 1.73 GHz. In the advanced chipset features
you can change the bus to 166 MHz. I did this and the boot screen
has the processor identified correctly as AMD XP 2700+, but I never
get past the Windows XP splash screen and a blue screen fatal error
occurs. I read in another forum that the ECS mainboard is unstable
at 166 and you should set it at 167. I tried this and got to the
Windows log on screen and then the computer re-starts by itself and I
get the blue screen on the re-boot. I have tried other bus settings,
higher and lower, but the same fatal error. I am contacting ECS and
will keep you posted. Maybe if we put our heads together we can
figure it out. Good luck.

Doug Hinchliffe

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I bought one of these last week at Fry's for my kid.
Left the multiplier setting at "by CPU" and then set
the bus speed in the BIOS to 166. Works great.
Did you install XP from scratch? Or are you
replacing the motherboard/CPU in your current
machine? You may need to do a "repair/install"
if the hard drive was connected and XP was installed
using another motherboard.


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I reformatted the hard drive and installed XP professional from
scratch. Now the computer will not even go to the BIOS screen when
turned with the XP 2700+. I had to install my old Duron 1 GHz
processor in the board just to have a computer to use. I am thinking
of updating the BIOS but I cannot find the BIOS upgrade for this
board on the ECS site. They list L7S7A upgrade, but not L7S7A2.

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Is your memory DDR333 (PC2700)?

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