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Subject: Re: What's wrong w/ my AMD xp 1900+

Author: Edward Seid

Date: 20:18:53 04/03/02

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On April 03, 2002 at 22:00:01, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>On April 03, 2002 at 13:20:22, Edward Seid wrote:
>
>>I ran the Crafty 18.14 (Dann Corbit Windows compile) benchmark on my AMDxp 1900+
>>and got 707knps.  This sounds slow to me.  Is there a problem w/ my
>>configuration or settings?
>>
>>256M total RAM
>>48M hash
>>12M pawn hash
>>8M EGTB cache
>
>It looks as if perhaps you're really running 1.2GHz (12x100) instead of the
>12x133(1.6ghz) that the chip is suppose to run. Download and run this program to
>verify your cpu is running 1.6GHz. Here is the URL.
>
>ftp://speedycpu.dyndns.org/pub/overclockstuff/wcpuid.zip
>
>If you are infact running 1.6Ghz email me and I'll try to help you figure out
>what the problem is. If you are running 1.2GHz go into your bios and change the
>bus speed from 100MHz to 133MHz. This will put you at 1.6GHz. I can see how
>easily it would be for a CPU to get underclocked. No matter what mine is set to
>(1.2ghz through 2.1GHz) it still just shows "AthlonXP 1900+". Some boards boot
>up at 100MHz bus and require the user to switch between 100/133 depending on the
>CPU type. If your motherboard is not jumperless look at your motherboard manual
>for the proper jumper settings to set the bus to 133MHz.

Thanks for the tip.  I downloaded the utilty and got the following data:
[ WCPUID Version 3.0c  (c) 1996-2001  By H.Oda! ]

  Processor #1 : AMD Athlon MP (Model 6) / 3459DFB3
      Platform : Socket A (Socket 462)
 Vendor String : AuthenticAMD
      CPU Type : Original OEM Processor (0)
        Family : 6  (7)
         Model : 6  (6)
   Stepping ID : 2  (2)
         Brand : ----
          APIC : ----
   Name String : AMD Athlon(TM) XP1900+

Internal Clock : 1611.65 MHz
    System Bus :  268.61 MHz DDR
  System Clock :  134.30 MHz
    Multiplier :   12.0

    L1 I-Cache :   64K Byte
    L1 D-Cache :   64K Byte
    L1 T-Cache :  ----
    L1  Cache  :  ----
    L2  Cache  :  256K Byte
    L2  Speed  : 1611.65 MHz (Full)

    MMX   Unit : Supported
    SSE   Unit : Supported
   SSE2   Unit : Not Supported
   MMX2   Unit : Supported
  3DNow!  Unit : Supported
  3DNow!+ Unit : Supported

   Host Bridge : 1106:3099.00 [VIA Apollo KT266]
  South Bridge : 1106:3074.00 [VIA VT8233]
    VGA Device : 1039:0300.90 [SiS 300/305/630]
  Memory  Size : 256M Byte
  Memory Clock : ----

    OS Version : Windows 2000  Version 5.00.2195 Service Pack 2
-------------- : -----------------------------------
    StdFunc 0  : 00000001 68747541 444D4163 69746E65
    StdFunc 1  : 00000662 00000000 00000000 0383F9FF
    ExtFunc 0  : 80000008 68747541 444D4163 69746E65
    ExtFunc 1  : 00000762 00000000 00000000 C1CBF9FF
    ExtFunc 2  : 20444D41 6C687441 54286E6F 5820294D
    ExtFunc 3  : 30393150 00002B30 00000000 00000000
    ExtFunc 4  : 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
    ExtFunc 5  : 0408FF08 FF20FF10 40020140 40020140
    ExtFunc 6  : 00000000 41004100 01008140 00000000
    ExtFunc 7  : 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001
    ExtFunc 8  : 00002022 00000000 00000000 00000000
    C0010015h  : 00000000 02001008 80B8ABB8 00000000
    C0010016h  : 00000000 00000000 80B8ABB8 00000000
    C0010017h  : 00000000 00000000 80B8ABB8 00000000
    C0010018h  : 00000000 FC000018 80B8ABB8 00000000
    C0010019h  : 0000000F FE000800 80B8ABB8 00000000
    C001001Ah  : 00000000 10000000 80B8ABB8 00000000
    C001001Bh  : 00000000 6003D22F 80B8ABB8 00000000
    C0010111h  : 00000000 000A0000 80B8ABB8 00000000
    C0010112h  : 00000000 00000000 80B8ABB8 00000000
    C0010113h  : 0000000F FFFE0001 80B8ABB8 00000000

##--- Date 04/03/2002, Time 18:15:17

Can you help me interpret and fix?  My mobo is an ASUS A7V266.




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