I believe I saw someone mention this earlier, but it should be right on the
nose. There should be a BIOS upgrade to your system bios. I have an ASUS
mobo which has an upgrade, and one of the things the upgrade covered was
higher speed cpu's showing up correctly. There were a few other issues they
addressed, but it seems likely this is the problem if all else is working
correctly.
Troy
"Kurr, Martin" wrote:
> This is a FIC VA503+ v1.2A mobo, not an Azza. This is not a soft-jumpered
> board for clock frequency and multiplier. Thanks for the shot, though.
> Martin Kurr
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> > From: Robert L. Binkley[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] FIC mobo & modem disconnect
> > > My brother just set up a new system: FIC503+, AMD 450MHz, Viper550,
> > Motorola
> > > 56k flex, 128MB (PC100 DIMM 1pc), Ensoniq PCIAudio, 40x EIDE CDROM,
> > Maxtor
> > > 5.6GB. Two problems:
> > > 1) bootup screen shows AMD 400MHz CPU...Is it possible only
> > > the report is wrong but the setting is actually 450MHz, or are the
> > jumpers
> > > wrong?
> > > 2) the modem connects fine, but kicks off after, say, 5 to 50 minutes.
> > > Newest drivers extended this from 5 to 15 minutes...
> > I had almost the same problem with a clients machine. This was a P3 500
> > showing as a 450. Are you by any chance using the new Azza
> > motherboard? If so, look in the CMOS setup. Check clock cycle (can't
> > remember the actual title of the field) setting if it is avail. May be
> > it's set wrong.
> > It also seemed that the Azza mb was very picky about the modem being
> > used. In my case it was an
> > OEM US Robotics 56K internal. I went thru 3 diff modems and replaced
> > the mb before fix was accomplished. I think it was probably the mb
> > causing the problem.
>
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