My processor thinks its slower that it really is & floppy drive errer/

I have just bought a NF24ALH - Mach4 NVIDIA nForce 2 400 Socket A ATX Mainboard when I put it in and put the power on for the first time due to I have lost my Windows 98 CD in some of the applications I had to skip a couple of files. I then decided to upgrade to Windows XP so I disabled Go Back and installed Windows XP. After a while I realised that I didn’t have a floppy drive so I went into the Bios settings and under the Drive A setting I put my 1.44 in floppy drive. I must have hit something else because when I rebooted It didn’t want to start to I had to wipe my CMOS memory this worked but on the screen where you hit delete to get into the BIOS it said I only had I 1.3GHZ processor when I actually have a AMD XP 3000+ Also it said I was only running at 200mhz FSB when my motherboard is actually 400MHZ. How to I get these to talk to each other to produce the right quality? In Bios under the Advanced Chipset Frequency it only goes up to 200MHZ not 400. I also don’t know how to tell it I’ve got a different processor to it thinks. When you get out of BIOS and back onto the screen were you hit delete to get into bios the following error comes up:

Floppy disk(s) fail (40)

This originally said 80 instead of 40. You can’t do anything about this message but either hit delete to go into the BIOS or to hit F1 to continue to load windows. When you hit F1 to load windows then go into the floppy drive this also comes up with the following error:

Please insert a disk into drive A:

I think these to error messages are related so once you get one sorted you get the other.

Please can you help with both problems?
Thanks
Alastair Gray

P.S. I run on Windows XP with a NF24ALH - Mach4 NVIDIA nForce 2 400 Socket A ATX Mainboard and a GF FX5200 128mb DDR TV nVidia Graphics card. 256mb 400mhz FSB DDR ram. I’m using the onboard-integrated sound. An AMD XP 3000+ processor, which thinks it’s a AMD 1303 processor. And Direct X 9.0b.

Any downloads will have to come through a different PC due to this computer doesn’t even have a modem!!

I hope I’ve given you enough info for you to reply
Thanks
Alastair Gray

Hi Alastair,

I don't know much about your mainboard, but your issues seem to be
coincidental with your Windows XP upgrade, rather than as a result of it.
Anything that happens in the BIOS is independent of your Operating System.

I would strongly suggest trying one of the following Newsgroups.

alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird
alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd

It definitely seems as though your FSB is set wrongly. Don't forget that on
some mainboards, the memory and the CPU both have independent buses. I.e.
you may have set your memory to 200MHz, but your CPU may be running at
133MHz.

Athlon XP processors run at 400MHz DDR. This is actually 200MHz, but the
processor simply considers the rise and fall of the 200MHz clock to be a
timing pulse in it's own right. So for each pulse, you get an up and a down
transition, hence 'doubling' the clock frequency.

Do you have a multiplier setting in your BIOS? If so, what is this set at?

JW



"alastairg100" wrote in message
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I have just bought a NF24ALH - Mach4 NVIDIA nForce 2 400 Socket A ATX
Mainboard when I put it in and put the power on for the first time due to I
have lost my Windows 98 CD in some of the applications I had to skip a
couple of files. I then decided to upgrade to Windows XP so I disabled Go
Back and installed Windows XP. After a while I realised that I didn't have a
floppy drive so I went into the Bios settings and under the Drive A setting
I put my 1.44 in floppy drive. I must have hit something else because when I
rebooted It didn't want to start to I had to wipe my CMOS memory this worked
but on the screen where you hit delete to get into the BIOS it said I only
had I 1.3GHZ processor when I actually have a AMD XP 3000+ Also it said I
was only running at 200mhz FSB when my motherboard is actually 400MHZ. How
to I get these to talk to each other to produce the right quality? In Bios
under the Advanced Chipset Frequency it only goes up to 200MHZ not 400. I
also don't know how to tell it I've got a different processor to it thinks.
When you get out of BIOS and back onto the screen were you hit delete to get
into bios the following error comes up:

Floppy disk(s) fail (40)

This originally said 80 instead of 40. You can't do anything about this
message but either hit delete to go into the BIOS or to hit F1 to continue
to load windows. When you hit F1 to load windows then go into the floppy
drive this also comes up with the following error:

Please insert a disk into drive A:

I think these to error messages are related so once you get one sorted you
get the other.

Please can you help with both problems?
Thanks
Alastair Gray

P.S. I run on Windows XP with a NF24ALH - Mach4 NVIDIA nForce 2 400 Socket
A ATX Mainboard and a GF FX5200 128mb DDR TV nVidia Graphics card. 256mb
400mhz FSB DDR ram. I'm using the onboard-integrated sound. An AMD XP 3000+
processor, which thinks it's a AMD 1303 processor. And Direct X 9.0b.

Any downloads will have to come through a different PC due to this
computer doesn't even have a modem!!

I hope I've given you enough info for you to reply
Thanks
Alastair Gray

Read the manual that came with the M/B. I am sure that it has a section on
bios settings.

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

"alastairg100" wrote in message
...
I have just bought a NF24ALH - Mach4 NVIDIA nForce 2 400 Socket A ATX
Mainboard when I put it in and put the power on for the first time due to I
have lost my Windows 98 CD in some of the applications I had to skip a
couple of files. I then decided to upgrade to Windows XP so I disabled Go
Back and installed Windows XP. After a while I realised that I didn't have
a floppy drive so I went into the Bios settings and under the Drive A
setting I put my 1.44 in floppy drive. I must have hit something else
because when I rebooted It didn't want to start to I had to wipe my CMOS
memory this worked but on the screen where you hit delete to get into the
BIOS it said I only had I 1.3GHZ processor when I actually have a AMD XP
3000+ Also it said I was only running at 200mhz FSB when my motherboard is
actually 400MHZ. How to I get these to talk to each other to produce the
right quality? In Bios under the Advanced Chipset Frequency it only goes up
to 200MHZ not 400. I also don't know how to tell it I've got a different
processor to it thinks. When you get out of BIOS and back onto the screen
were you hit delete to get into bios the following error comes up:

Floppy disk(s) fail (40)

This originally said 80 instead of 40. You can't do anything about this
message but either hit delete to go into the BIOS or to hit F1 to continue
to load windows. When you hit F1 to load windows then go into the floppy
drive this also comes up with the following error:

Please insert a disk into drive A:

I think these to error messages are related so once you get one sorted you
get the other.

Please can you help with both problems?
Thanks
Alastair Gray

P.S. I run on Windows XP with a NF24ALH - Mach4 NVIDIA nForce 2 400 Socket
A ATX Mainboard and a GF FX5200 128mb DDR TV nVidia Graphics card. 256mb
400mhz FSB DDR ram. I'm using the onboard-integrated sound. An AMD XP
3000+ processor, which thinks it's a AMD 1303 processor. And Direct X
9.0b.

Any downloads will have to come through a different PC due to this
computer doesn't even have a modem!!

I hope I've given you enough info for you to reply
Thanks
Alastair Gray