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Tiribulus:D
i have a KD7 myself, everything works fine except:
mainboard temp is getting kinda high... usually like 2-3 degrees below the cpu temp....
i'm not sure about my voltages, something seems wrong here. MBM _probably_ gives me wrong voltages on these lines:
-12v = 6.93v
-5v = 0.69v
That doesn't look right does it? well i'm not having any stability problems or so @ 150fsb, so i guess that it's maybe time for an update or so?? ow well
Is there going to be any recalls on this?
I just bought this about 3 weeks ago, and now frankly, I'm quite scared of even messing with anything.
When I got it, I had some problems updating the bios, like i'd have to reset it everytime, that was fixed by flashing the bios and updating it.
But, now, I'm afraid to use a higher FSBS, mine is currently at 200 with my AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1ghz. Yesterday I ordered an AMD Athlon XP 2100+ processor and it will set it at 266mhz FSBS, this will probably make my hard drive corrupt.
What am I to do? I don't want this motherboard anymore if it's just going to ruin my computer like this. I can't ship it back to newegg.com, because I will be losing money on this...
Someone help?
Hi Mistical,
I use a KD7 with an Athlon XP2100+ and it works just fine. I think the problems only occur when you start trying to overclock the FSB. If you run at stock speed then evrything should be fine.
Hey you guys, when you say HD corruption at 200Mhz FSB, do you mean like 2x 100mhz (as mine is at 2x133Mhz) or is it 2x200MHz (overclocked) giving a 400Mhz total.
Thanks!
By 200FSB they mean that in soft menu the are setting the CPU's FSB to 200 which gives you at DDR of 400mhz.
YesQuote:
Originally posted by mbrock
By 200FSB they mean that in soft menu the are setting the CPU's FSB to 200 which gives you at DDR of 400mhz.
So when I get my processor tomorrow, the XP 2100+, I should hook it up and be okay? I don't want my hard drive to be corrupt. And I never overclock. I don't mess with that stuff, or care too.Quote:
Originally posted by JestersTear1
Hi Mistical,
I use a KD7 with an Athlon XP2100+ and it works just fine. I think the problems only occur when you start trying to overclock the FSB. If you run at stock speed then evrything should be fine.
Hey you guys, when you say HD corruption at 200Mhz FSB, do you mean like 2x 100mhz (as mine is at 2x133Mhz) or is it 2x200MHz (overclocked) giving a 400Mhz total.
Thanks!
"Hey you guys, when you say HD corruption at 200Mhz FSB, do you mean like 2x 100mhz (as mine is at 2x133Mhz) or is it 2x200MHz (overclocked) giving a 400Mhz total."Quote:
Originally posted by mistical
So when I get my processor tomorrow, the XP 2100+, I should hook it up and be okay? I don't want my hard drive to be corrupt. And I never overclock. I don't mess with that stuff, or care too.
In that context 200 means 200x2 ie 400ddr. You should beable to get your bus to run at 143 or so x 2 ie 286 with no problem on just about any decent air cooler around. Unless you're running really cheap memory. You probably wouldn't even have to touch the voltage and yes that will give you a noticable performance increase. You won't have any issues with drive corruption until your're way up there, 190-200 range or more and even then it usually means "ntoskrnl.dll" won't load or something which is usually fixed by rebooting at a slightly lower speed. You're welcome to not overclock and I'm not discouraging you from being here, but you are going to be a lone voice with that message.
Tiribulus:D
Alright thanks. Right now it's at 100, meaning it's really at 200 bus with my AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1ghz. As I believe :)Quote:
Originally posted by Tiribulus
"Hey you guys, when you say HD corruption at 200Mhz FSB, do you mean like 2x 100mhz (as mine is at 2x133Mhz) or is it 2x200MHz (overclocked) giving a 400Mhz total."
In that context 200 means 200x2 ie 400ddr. You should beable to get your bus to run at 143 or so x 2 ie 286 with no problem on just about any decent air cooler around. Unless you're running really cheap memory. You probably wouldn't even have to touch the voltage and yes that will give you a noticable performance increase. You won't have any issues with drive corruption until your're way up there, 190-200 range or more and even then it usually means "ntoskrnl.dll" won't load or something which is usually fixed by rebooting at a slightly lower speed. You're welcome to not overclock and I'm not discouraging you from being here, but you are going to be a lone voice with that message.
Tiribulus:D
Now, I'm not too sure what you mean of having to touch the voltage and such. I have generic pc2700 512mb unbuffered ram.... maybe that will help out on your reply, if you do.
My friend told me that hard drive corruption would like wipe my hd out? I just don't want to get to this level, It doesn't look like I will now, since I don't do overclocking and such.
Set the bios to optimal defaults, slap the 2100+ plus in and let her fly. You should have no problems running with stock settings on the KD and xp2100+ :banana:
For now yes that is probably the way to go. Hang around here for awhile and we'll help you with some tweaking. No need to fear. This stuff is not nearly as scary as it seems at first. BTW if you have 200fsb Tbird (which it sounds like) then you have it on the correct default settings. All this will be second nature before you know it. Know this though. You will NOT blow anything up by just giving it a wrong bios setting. There's probably a case somewhere, but I've been playing with performance machines for a few years now and have never heard of anybody ever destroying equipment just by tweaking/overclocking. All the warnings, "why you're taking a chance of" add your favorite disaster here, never happen by tweaking alone. Improperly installed coolong is the biggest culprit.
Tiribulus:D
So I shut down, boot up, go into bios, set it to default. Shut down, take out old processor, put in the new. Boot up, then do I go into bios and make sure it's right? :)Quote:
Originally posted by mbrock
Set the bios to optimal defaults, slap the 2100+ plus in and let her fly. You should have no problems running with stock settings on the KD and xp2100+ :banana:
I'm not new at this stuff, but with this motherboard, I am going to be careful now. Just incase, because I've been spending a lot of money lately here... ;x
I would shut it off, jump it clear, switch the cpu's. It'll say cpu is unworkable or has been changed most likely when you boot back up. Hit del to go into the bios, arrow over to set optimal defaults, enter, enter to agree to the change, F10 and enter to save changes and exit. If you set it and then switch the processors it'll change again when it sees the new processor.
Tiribulus:D
I installed the 2100+ w/ thermaltake volcano 7+ heatsink/fan.
I went into bios, set it optimal default, when I reboot, before it gets to bios SOMETIMES it works through bios, but before it gets to XP startup screen, it shuts down.
I also tried it the speed of 1500+ and it booted fine.
Not sure what else to do, I'm going to try and figure this out at a friends house now, post if you know what we can do if he doesn't figure it out.
Ya just to note on that (misticals friend here) That im thinking its a power problem of some sort (maybe) :rolleyes: We will see when he gets his arse here LOL:D
Go back into the bios, softmenu III part after you set it to load optimal defaults and reboot and see what it sees it as or actually the boot screen should tell you. If it sees it as a 2100+ go over to the system diagnostic page and watch the temperature for a few minutes and see what it climbs up to. The volcanoe 7+ is an ok, but not great cooler. If you creep up over the mid 40's (which I suspect) you're most likely going to have trouble especially running games or anything cpu intensive. Someone may run in here and say "I know somebody who idles at 60c and they're fine". Trust me you want it cooler than that. If you,re getting high 40's sitting in the bios your good for 10c more at least once you give it some work. Let's see what you have for temps and go from there.
Tiribulus:D
Could be that too. Check those rails when you get in there.Quote:
Originally posted by IceCaps
Ya just to note on that (misticals friend here) That im thinking its a power problem of some sort (maybe) :rolleyes: We will see when he gets his arse here LOL:D
Tiribulus:D
Uhh, have any of you seen overstated Internal CPU temps this high?
System temp: 32c
CPU (external) temp: 36c
Internal CPU Temp: 77c
MAYBE it's just me... but thats uh.... like 30c too much? heh. That's a BIG overstatement and I want to know if something is really wrong or not.
That's rip snortin hot there Dude, maybe calibration issue if it runs at that reading.
Tiribulus:D
His CPU Core TEmp is 96C and CPU Sufrace temp is 48C and sys temp is 43C THE CORE IS HOT AS HELL!!!
Hey he has a 300w power supply, i dont belive this is enough...am i right about my speculations?
What is the brand of the power supply and that is either waaaay too hot or is reading incorrectly or both. That core temp can't be right if that cpu is still good. You should get much bette than that with Volcanoe 7+ and even decent fan. Check to be sure hs/f is on the right way and not :banana::banana::banana::banana:ed or something. Don't laugh it's been done, and not just by idiots.
Tiribulus:confused:
OK here is status(his Heatsink was backwards :p :p :p After i fixed that now his temp is 62C (core) 49C(Surface) and sys(44C) we had it booted up as a 2100+ ONCE then after we restarted it, poof blackscreen, reset bios brought back to 1500+ Boots ok, change back to 2100+ Black screen We also installed a 4PIN Power cord to the mobo (the one that is 2 black wires and 2 yellow wires) the 5V is at 5.10V and the 12V is at 11.61V AGP is 1.55V His power supply is a SH(Generic im guessing :rolleyes: )
What fan does it have? Those can be ok for defaults only. I have one here that I took out because it was just not gettin it done for me. Again some may say that's not that hot, but though some Athlons will run that hot they are in the vast minority in my experience. If you want to test this, get a house fan of some kind and point it straight into the case. Power supply probably could use replacing though i don't think that alone will stop it from booting at all.
Tiribulus:D
It wont boot period, seems when we change something in bios and save changes restart, it just black screens on us !!!! ON the cpu he has a Volcano 7+ with the copper heatsink. running at 6500RPMS