Re: Underclocking CPU?

"SteveH" <steve.hough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "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?


AH - just notived it does not have the orginal graphics card in it. The
original is an AGP Geforce FX5200 with 400Mhz DDR. This one for whatever
reason has a Geforce 4 MX440 which I assume has a lot slower graphical
memory - would this be what is slowing the CPU down?
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Niel H
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