Hi,

In going from a Duron 950 (200mhz bus) to an XP1700 (266mhz bus), did
you make all the necessary changes on the main board (move bus jumper
from 100 to 133) - not all but a few boards) and in the Bios?

Are you sure this board will handle the XP 1700? (1.47ghz)

Are you using S-dram?  Is it PC133 or PC100?  Should be the faster PC133

Before reinstalling WinXP - put the other Duron 950 back in and see if
it works okay.  If it does, it's not a software issue.  It would be
hardware issue only.

Thanks and have a Great Day!

Joe Lore


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Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 7:54 PM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] Upgrading Processor Glitch


In a computer using WinXP I just changed from a AMD Duron 750 processor
to a Athlon XP 1700 processor. The 1700 processor is fairly new (about 3
months) and has been working great in another computer. Since I
installed the Athlon XP 1700 in place of the 950 Duron, the computer
freezes and keeps locking up. I have never had to reinstall Windows
before just because I changed processors, motherboards yes, but a
processor? Because I changed from a Duron to a totally different (except
for the socket it uses) processor, the Athlon XP, will I have to now
either reinstall WinXP or run the repair?? Or should I be looking
elsewhere for my problems?? The motherboard is a ECS K7S5A with 394 of
memory. No service pack installed (this is a corp. edition that won't
allow the service pack to be installed, anybody know any
work-around?)

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