hougtimo Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 I have this pc to upgrade and it was all going fine. I upgraded the cpu from 1.7 to 2.8 skt 478 p4. Booted fine, checked the speed and it said 2.1ghz. humph. so I upgraded the bios (msi ms-6506) to the latest from packard bell which " adds code for new Pentium 4 and Celeron Processors ". well its still being recognised as 2.1 ghz. Is there anyway at all I can get round this without a new motherboard?ThanksHougTimo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroshift Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Check the fsb in bios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hougtimo Posted February 23, 2007 Author Share Posted February 23, 2007 I can't as the board is specially manufactured for Packard Bell / NEC so its an OEM board so anything of any use in the bios is hidden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prx984 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 How are you checking the cpu speed? If your checking it with Windows XP's system properties, it's probably incorrect. Get CPUz and try that.My DELL Latitude PIII 650 with speedstep would only recognize itself as a 500MHz in system properties under XP, but with CPUz it said it was a 650MHz PIII. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 nitroshift is right, it´s the FSB.Now it works on 400(100)MHz and it should be on 533(133)MHz FSB.Isn´t there a BIOS from MSI it self that will give you more options? Or just a modded BIOS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 most recent Intel processes use SpeedStephttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeedSteplikewise AMD processors use Cool'n'Quiethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool%27n%27QuietCheck Power Options in Control Panel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmX.Memnoch Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 My guess would be that the chipset doesn't support the proper FSB for the CPU. It won't necessarily keep it from working. For example, if the motherboard supports Northwood P4's at 400MHz, you can put a 533FSB Northwood P4 on the board but it'll still run at 400FSB.No amount of BIOS updates will fix that. The only option would be to "overclock" the chipset but that's usually out of the question on OEM systems...which he has. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I gues the basic BIOS doesn´t have that option to OC and most 400MHz chipsets will take 125 to 133MHz any way when it normaly runs on 100MHz (and the RAM supports it too ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmX.Memnoch Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Yeah, that's basically overclocking the chipset. However, most OEM BIOS's don't offer any FSB or memory adjustment features. Those are reserved for enthusiast systems.A guy in the office next to mine put a P4 2.6/800 Northwood CPU in a system that only supported a 400MHz FSB...then came and asked me why the CPU was only running at 1.3GHz! It took me about a half second to realize that it was running at half speed because the FSB was running at half the CPUs rated speed (but full speed for the chipset). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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