help on athlon 2600+ and k7s5a

Re: help on athlon 2600+ and k7s5a

feeds@yuku.com (Revhead) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:13:29 GMT

Thanks for the advice. I'll switch it back to 147/147 while I look for more info on 150/150.
To my mind this setting can't be stressing the CPU, but I thought at 147/147 it was overclocking the AGP and PCI buses? That was one of the reasons I thought 150 would be better, because as I understand it at 150 these return to normal?

Re: help on athlon 2600+ and k7s5a

feeds@yuku.com (Drag0nlord) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:50:57 GMT

Hello Revhead

I remember that the 150/150 setting was not user-friendly.
Going back to the "Beginner's guide for overclocking the K7S5A" that I compiled (years ago...) I found:

"You MUST HAVE an OC BIOS installed to boot to 150/150. It is the ONLY WAY to get to 150/150.

But you can't go from a 150/150 boot to 166/166 with SpeedFan... the 150/150 setting is kind of like a 'dead end'... you boot to it, and you have to stay there,...

Re: help on athlon 2600+ and k7s5a

feeds@yuku.com (Revhead) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:01:36 GMT

Drag0nlord wrote:
Hi Drag0nlord,
Re: Your sig?
I have just installed an XP-M 2800+ in my remaining K7S5A.
It seems to run fine from boot at 150/150 with the HoneyX BIOS. In fact, it seemed totally unstressed when I used a burn-in program to test it.
This is at stock voltage with a decent copper heatsink.
The only problem is that it keeps losing the 150/150 setting between reboots and...

Re: help on athlon 2600+ and k7s5a

feeds@yuku.com (Drag0nlord) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:42:56 GMT

Well, it depends...
there are several "2600+" models out there.
First, the old Throughbred XP 2600+... those works on FSB 133/133
Then the more "recent" Barton's XP 2600+ ... those work on FSB 166/166
And finally, the Mobile Barton XP-M 2600+... those work on FSB 133/133

For the first, the BIOS would say it's a 2600+ (2128 mhz)
For the second, if it is running at 133/133, the BIOS would recognize it as a 1800+ (1529 mhz)...

Re: help on athlon 2600+ and k7s5a

feeds@yuku.com (Revhead) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:32:06 GMT

Just because it doesn't recognise it doesn't mean that it isn't running at the intended speed. I think one of the HoneyX BIOS will name the 2600+ correctly if that is important to you.
After booting into Windows just go to System in Control Panel and it should tell you what speed it is running at?

help on athlon 2600+ and k7s5a

feeds@yuku.com (lozietto) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:15:02 GMT

Hi guys gret forum!
Please help me
I used this board with an anthlon xp 1600+ with no problems. I upgraded the cpu to an athlon xp 2600+ ( on you web site it says is supported) but I cannot make the board recognize it well. It says is a 1800+ or less depending on the fsb settings. I can set or 100mhz or 133mhz but does not get untill recognizing as a 2600+ ( that should run around 2000mhz). can you please help me sole my problem? thank you very much ( i tried also the custom bioses...