Why are you so slow damnit!

[Woah Mama!]

Long story short, using a motherboard that should be able to support DDR400 and FSB333mhz, it's somehow running my 1.916mhz Athlon XP 2600+ Barton @ 1150mhz at 101FSB instead of 202FSB as seen in the attached CPUZ report. Have tried all 4 BIOS revisions from the Gigabyte website, none work. If I manually set the FSB clock to its maximum of 132mhz in the BIOS the computer starts at around 1.5ghz and a memory data rate of 340+mhz instead of 266mhz even if I lock the memory rate to 266mhz with the BIOS settings. It then restarts at default BIOS settings and the CPU is once again at 1150mhz.
I can do the old CTRL+F1 trick in the bios to bring up ram speeds and latency but any changed values have utterly no effect on the computer. Included is a DXdiag report and a CPUz dump. Ignore the 128mb 9550, I'm just trying out a few different video cards we have lying around. My 2600+ Barton is on the supported CPU list for this motherboard but it isn't running like it should and it's becoming painful.

Thoughts on why this motherboard is being such a royal pain? I cannot take playing NFSU2 at 640x480 without any details on any more :banghead:

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[spud107]

check if theres a safe mode jumper (or lack of the connector cap)
its 3 pins on the mb with a cap connecting 2, usually it sets the fsb at 100 if enabled

[Woah Mama!]

there is only the F_Audio connection and one that is simply labelled JP_1 and it is only 2 pins, and has a jumper on it. I thought that could be it but didn't remember to take it off when I had the computer apart.
I can't check the manual because what you get from buying parts from cheap and cheerful Asian computer markets is minimal English ommunication, lots of "yes" and not much of "no". I told my dad not to buy anything from those markets but he did, and I wasn't there to tell him not to get what he bought. Looks like the Sempron 2600+ he bought is a fake too.

[Namslas90]

There should be 2 pins just to the right of the top PCI slot labled J-1. Close them with a jumper to increase the speed from low(FSB 266/333/400 Mhz) to high speed (FSB 2000 Mhz).

Information located on page 6 section 1.2.2 of your mobo manual;

http://www.axper.com/download/manual/data/XP-K7V600_1001.pdf

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[Woah Mama!]

Booyah I jumped back to 1.5ghz once the JP1 pin was removed, then I manually put the mhz up from 133mhz to 165mhz and now I'm at 1.9ghz again, although according to CPU-Z I can actually get to 333mhz. Would be nice to be able to find a way to do that with this motherboard. I've taken a photo of the Advanced chipset (ie the CTRL+F1 overclocking page) and the Voltage control page which has my CPU speed, ram and AGP voltage controls. Any help to understand what the hell they mean would be very much appreciated. I now just have to make up for the 200mhz core speed loss from going from my 9600 Pro to a 256mb 9550.

Edit: Here are the photos, can get better detail ones if anyone needs them. Seems the maximum FSB I can bump to is 165mhz, I'll get a photo of that because it does confuse me.

I think I have plenty of power and a decent cooler to be able to overclock my CPU a bit. I don't think I'll get much success from overclocking my video card or my ram though.

[Namslas90]

BooyahI jumped back to 1.5ghz, then I manually put the mhz up from 133mhz to 165mhz and now I'm at 1.9ghz again, although according to CPU-Z I can actually get to 333mhz. Would be nice to be able to find a way to do that with this motherboard. I've taken a photo of the Advanced chipset (ie the CTRL+F1 overclocking page) and the Voltage control page which has my CPU speed, ram and AGP voltage controls. Any help to understand what the hell they mean would be very much appreciated. I not just have to make up for the 200mhz core loss from going from my 9600 Pro to a 256mb 9550.
Just got to get these photos up, won't be a minute.

Look at post #4.

[Woah Mama!]

That is not my motherboard Namslas90, I have a maximum FSB of 333mhz with this motherboard. When the jumper was closed I was capped to a 100mhz FSB speed, with an open jumper I went to 133mhz and then could manually put the value up to 165mhz to get my 1916mhz Barton back to a decent speed (1893mhz).

[Namslas90]

That is not my motherboard Namslas90, I have a maximum FSB of 333mhz with this motherboard. When the jumper was closed I was capped to a 100mhz FSB speed, with an open jumper I went to 133mhz and then could manually put the value up to 165mhz to get my 1916mhz Barton back to a decent speed (1893mhz).

OK, I took that spec out of another of your threads. So, what mobo we workin with?

[newtekie1]

You still need to removed the jp-1 jumper on the motherboard to switch from 100MHz FSB to 166MHz FSB(333MHz effective).

[Woah Mama!]

In the CPU-Z dump you'll see that this is a Gigabyte 7VM400M-RZ; tragic I know, but it's all that we have left ATM.
The jumper is taken care of and I'm back to a full speed FSB, or so it seems. The maximum number I can enter in the second photo I posted is from 133mhz to 165mhz. Somehow think that there is no other way to get this motherboard to get a faster CPU speed which is a shame.
The saddest part is that my 9600 Pro was 400/250 stock speeds with ATI tool and this 9550 is only 250/200. You really do notice that 150/50 difference.

[Namslas90]

You still need to removed the jp-1 jumper on the motherboard to switch from 100MHz FSB to 166MHz FSB(333MHz effective).

Page 8 of correct mobo manual says for FSB of 200 set J-1 CLOSED.

[spud107]

most 9550's cores clock up not too bad, iv had 1 at 420mhz core 233mhz mem, another at 450/250, both 256mb models