Re: Underclocking CPU?

"Niel Humphreys" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> Wonder if anyone can help with this one.
>
> Got a customer just came in with an Advent tower which has suddenly
> started underclocking itself.
>
> Board is an MSI MS-6716 with an AMD XP3000 CPU, 512Meg PC3200 DDR. I can't
> find any info about this board as it's an OEM but it seems to auto sense
> the FSB speed.
>
> On the POST screen it is throwing up an XP1733 CPU and sure enough in the
> Bios is is throwing up the CPU FSB as 133Mhz which is incorrect and there
> is no option to change it anywhere in the Bios settings.
>
> I tend to avoid AMD stuff so am at a bit of a loss on this one. Anyone got
> any ideas? Aside from this the machine seems to operate OK. He'd wiped the
> hard drive so I can't see what Windows XP is recognising the CPUs as,
> that's being installed at the moment...
>
> --
>
> Niel H
>
Duff CMOS battery possibly?
Tried resetting BIOS?

SteveH


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