AMD Athlon XP 1700+

From: Storm (stormbringer2k_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/30/04


Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 16:54:06 -0700


"UN-KNOWN CPU", Seems like your CPU is running a little
faster than it should This will cause problems in games &
graphics programs (been there)

:- AMD 1.7 Athlon runs around @ 1446MHz not 1533MHz,an
AMD 1.8 runs around @1533. Check to see if you have your
Dip-Switches set correctly on your mainboard to produce
the correct running frequency & voltage. if you have a
Mainboard that support "RedStorm" overclocking utility,(
IN BIOS settings under frequency) set you CPU back to
default:
----------------------------------------
DEFAULT:-
CPU INTENAL FREQUENCY = 133.3MHz
PCI FREQUENCY = 33.3 MHz
FSB FREQUENCY = 266MHz
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AMD packing info:

on the top side of the CPU ( good idea to right this down
before installing CPU) it`ll say something like:
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)(7)(8)
Ax Dx 1700 D L T 3 C

[1]
  Ax = AMD ATHLON TYPE ?x
  Dx = DURON TYPE?x
[2]
   Dx = DESKTOP COMPUTER (cpu type)
[3]
   1700 = RUNNING SPEED
[4]
   (PACKING TYPE)
 A = PGA D= OPGA {M =CARD MODULE}
[5]
  OPERATING VOLTAGE
M = 1.75v N=1.8v
{S=1.5v U=1.6v P=1.7v }
[6]
  CASE TEMP
  T=90 deg "c" S=95 deg "c"
[7]
  SIZE OF THE L2 CACHE
 1= 64Kbyte 2=128Kbyte 3= 256Kbyte

[8]
MAX FSB
 A or B= 200Mhz C or OTHERS= 266Mhz

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Further info :

http://www.amd.com/us-
en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/Electrical_Speci
fication_Rev04_ENG.pdf

Have a nice day

Storm

PS, check to see if your onboard Sound has been turned
off in the BIOS, uninstall your AC97 drivers, they dont
like creative soundblaster drivers much, re-install your
creative drivers:

Check in the BIOS also, that your AGP memory appeture
isnt larger than twice the memory of your graphics card,
eg:64meg card = Max appeture size of 128meg, infact i
wouldn`t take it much higher than 128 even if it was a
128 card.

try your AGP slot running @ x4 to see if that helps.
sometimes it does.
-
99.999% certain its your AMD CPU over clocked to 1533
instead of running @1446 though.

Later
S

>------End of Message------<

>-----Original Message-----
>Hello, I am currently having a problem that I can't seem
to fix, and it
>seems to crash applications. When I first start the
computer, BIOS says
>that I have an "Unknow CPU Type 1533MHz". When Windows
detects CPU it
>says "Unknow CPU Type" as well. I can't seem to fix this
problem,
>because it sometimes causes a BSOD with a "STOP" error.
I think my video
>card may have some problems too, because some times it
lists an nVIDIA
>driver as the "STOP" error. Any suggestions?
>
>This Computer:
>-GenuineAMD Athlon XP 1700+ 1.53GHz
>-MSI K7T TURBO2 Mainboard
>-(Brand New!) Western Digital WD400 40GB 7200RPM 4MB
Cache
>-Mitsumi DVD-ROM Drive
>-(Disconnected) Iomega Internal IDE ZIP100
>-Standard NEC 3.5" Floppy Disk Drive
>-MSI AC'97 On board Audio
>-nVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200 with AGP8X
>-(Primary) Creative SoundBlaster Live! WDM Value
>-Agere Systems Standard 56K Communication Device
>-Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter
>-Windows XP Professional SP1 Corporate
>-New Security Updates
>
>Mainly, these problems occur when playing games, or
using Adobe
>Photoshop. The software I have tried is:
>
>-HALO: Combat Evolved (WILL NOT START!)
>-Unreal Tournament 2003 (nv4_disp.dll error!)
>-Grand Theft Auto III (Unexpected Exception!)
>-The Thing (BSOD in middle of game!)
>-Adobe Photoshop 6 (System hangs and reboots.)
>-Quake III Arena (Game just hangs and exits in game.)
>-James Bond 007: Nightfire (WILL NOT START!)
>
>This is very annoying, as I just installed Windows XP
for the 20,000th
>time, and if you could help it would be appreciated.
>.
>



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