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Adam....... I had the same problem with the 2700+ and a MSI
motherboard. MSI tech support had me change the SDRAM cas latency of my
memory from 2 to 2.5 in the BIOS and everything has work great since. Hope
this helps..
Alan Bentley
At 04:56 AM 5/1/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>I really need some help. I just built a brand new computer(my first
>build). A7n8x deluxe mobo, athlon 2700+, corsair pc3200 512mb(1 stick),
>antec 400 watt power supply, 80gb wd special ed. hard drive. I turned it
>on for the first time and it actually worked! I loaded windows xp, no
>problem. Everything seemed to be great. BUT, then I noticed at the POST
>screen that it thought I was running an Athlon 1500+. This is apparently
>somewhat normal, so I went into the bios and changed the external cpu
>frequency to '166' and left the multiplier at '13'. Now, it goes through
>the POST and says that it is an athlon 2700+, but then right before
>windows loads it freezes at some blue error screen. Almost like it thinks
>I'm overclocking or something. I don't know. I'm totally dumbfounded. I
>really need some help. I tried a stick of my friends pc2100 memory and it
>did the same thing. Do I need to change some other settings? It runs great
>when the external frequency is set to '100'. Is somethi!
> ng maybe defective? Please help!
>Adam
>
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