ABIT KD7A motherboard not recognising Athlon XP 3000 process

[Stanm]

I have an ABIT KD7A motherboard, KT400A, with the latest BIOS update and have fitted an Athlon XP 3000 (333) processor and 1GB DDR 400 ram.

This give blue screen errors but theses vanished by loading the BIOS system defaults. This changed the processor, as shown on the front splash screen to an Athlon XP 1300 with DDR speed of 333.

I did not belive thios could be correct so ran a performance check and my processor is only being registered at 1.3 Ghz.

According to the motherboard manual this configuration should be fine.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

[isa-d]

Do you have set correctily the parameter by your CPU on the Bios?

under the voice Soft Menu Setup you must select your FSB=166, Ratio 5:2:1, Multipler normally is locked on the XP processor but must be 13 so 166x13=2168 MHz

[Stanm]

Thanks, but those are the values I have set up.

What is interesting is that the BIOS says I have a 3000(333) processor, whilst the starup splash screen and the benchmark test both say its a 1300

[isa-d]

This happen when the Bios don't know your CPU and display a generic XP processor at the startup, but you wrote your Bios is updated ....

[Stanm]

Yes - but I have just looked a little closer and told the BIOS it was a user defined processor not a generic one. I then set all the values as you suggested and it now seems to be working fine.

Thanks for your help - far better then ABIT themselves.