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I posted a while ago about buying the athlon xp 3200+ cpu. it has finally arrived and I have fitted it but like I expected, a problem has occured. When I now boot up the computer it doesn't recognise it and says that the Athlon XP 1900+ is installed, which Is worse than the one I took out. I brought the barton off ebay and no one would be stupid enough to send a fake barton and then leave their address so Im pretty sure its the correct model, and I checked the specs of my motherboard and it defiantely supports the barton. I browsed the internet, mainly the AMD website, and it seemed like a common occurance, and many people have been saying things like increasing FSB settings from 133mhz to 200mhz or above and it should work. However, when I enter my system bios, and enter the bios for my processor which is called the 'CPU PnP Steup Page', I get the following options:
CPU Brand: AMD K7
CPU Type: Barton
CPU Frequency: 133Mhz
SDRAM Frequency: 200Mhz
Now I can change the SDRAM Frequency to 266Mhz but I cant change any of the other specs as they greyed out and I am pretty sure I need to change the CPU Frequency to 200Mhz+ but I cant.
I am looking in the right place and if I am how do I change the settings?
CPU Brand: AMD K7
CPU Type: Barton
CPU Frequency: 133Mhz
SDRAM Frequency: 200Mhz
Now I can change the SDRAM Frequency to 266Mhz but I cant change any of the other specs as they greyed out and I am pretty sure I need to change the CPU Frequency to 200Mhz+ but I cant.
I am looking in the right place and if I am how do I change the settings?