[rb26dettr34]

hi, i jus recently bought a used athlon xp 2600+ T-Bred B... now i was hoping it should work on my gigabyte GA-7zx-1 rev1.0 motherboard at 1600mhz (16x100*) since it doesnt support 133mhz fsb... now in the boot up... it shows as athlon xp 1100 and in *My Computer* properties it also shows as xp 1100mhz but the multiplier should be 16x... Now in CPU-Z it shows as a duron Applebred core with 11x multiplier and the l2 cache is only 64kb instead of 256kb... i might have screwed up the processor now because i tried cutting the L3 bridges since my understanding was that the multiplier on the chip was 11x.... i changed it to 16x and now its even lower than it was before at 10x so pretty much im very annoyed and frustrated with this athlon xp... i also tried the wire trick by putting in thin wires in the cpu to work the multiplier but that jus made identifying the processor longer can anyone help me out on getting the multi at 16x n the cache to 256kb.. thanks guys for anything...

[pete21]

all i can say is that i too have recently got a amd 2600+ and when i installed it on my abit k7s5a pro 5.0 motherboar it shown up as a >unknows amd 2400 runing at 1.5 ghz i too wos very frustrated and i dident try as mutch as you but i did manage to change the ghz in the bios it wos 100/100 and i got it to 133/100 i think as far as i can remember witch got it up two 2ghz i have herd changing the pins on the motherboard can fix this or a bios update but as im not comfident to do them ill stick with 2ghz..fast enuf for me :) i did try to get it upto 166/133 but when i restarted my screen went blank..no bios coming up and in order to get things back to normal i had to re set bios by pins on motherboard

[alex]

Not to insult you but are you absolutely sure you haven't been stiffed by the vendor? It could simply have been quoted as an Athlon when infact it is a Duron.

[pete21]

check the numbers on the back of the cpu :)

[rb26dettr34]

well i got it off ebay for 13 dollors and the stepping code on mine wasnt listed in CPU World so it could possibly be a duron but why would it still post as a Athlon XP in start up?? even if it is still a duron can anyone help me get the 11x multiplier back which no duron ever had by my knowledge... on the chip it was

AMD Athlon (TM)
AXDA2600DKV3C F3563335106628
JIUHB 0337MPMW (r) (c) 1999 AMD
i think the package number is 27648.

duron?? or athlon xp??

[rb26dettr34]

Originally Posted by pete21 all i can say is that i too have recently got a amd 2600+ and when i installed it on my abit k7s5a pro 5.0 motherboar it shown up as a >unknows amd 2400 runing at 1.5 ghz i too wos very frustrated and i dident try as mutch as you but i did manage to change the ghz in the bios it wos 100/100 and i got it to 133/100 i think as far as i can remember witch got it up two 2ghz i have herd changing the pins on the motherboard can fix this or a bios update but as im not comfident to do them ill stick with 2ghz..fast enuf for me :) i did try to get it upto 166/133 but when i restarted my screen went blank..no bios coming up and in order to get things back to normal i had to re set bios by pins on motherboard

well 2ghz is the normal speed for a 2400 t-bred :)i think i officially screwed mine up since i cut all the L3 bridges and only got 10.5x multiplier instead of 24x which is what its supposed to be.. im jus gonna get a nforce2 with 3200+ barton now :)