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[qdn745]

all of a sudden my proceesor bus speed just decreased after i reformatted my computer. It was 3 hundred and something yesterday and now its 166mhz does anyone know what happened?? my AGP bus speed also went down... any ideas what happened? i never overclocked anything by the way. Any help is appreciated.

 

[jack22]

If its AMD it si called their cool and quiet technology.

 

[ardy891]

It seems to have decreased by half, HAve u got the fsb set correctly in the bios!!! It cud b cool 'n' quiet but that depends on the cpu u have!!

 

[qdn745]

Yes its a amd xp 3000+ but what do you mean by that, can you please explain? bad thing or good thing? normal or not normal?

 

[rat_boy_100]

hardly a bad thing...itd be bad if it doubled in speed instead of halved, cus it would of fried itself. u tried changing it bk in the bios and seeing if it stays?

 

[qdn745]

umm no my bios restrict overclocking or changing any types of speeds, so i guess it is the cool n quiet thing. well as long as its not a bad thing i'm cool with it but thx for ur helps.

 

[ardy891]

Nope its not cool 'n' quiet, the barton core do not support it!!! Did u sue two different sources to get the fsb, co it can sumtimes display it at its true speed and some can dispaly it at its doubled speed!!!

 

[qdn745]

i'm getting worried now, i'm not seeing it at different sources, it displays in my bios. yesterday it displayed 333Mhz but just now when i checked it said 166Mhz. any ideas on what happened?

 

[ardy891]

U appear to have reset ur cmos or bios to default settings!!! press windows key and pause/break on the ur keyboard whilst at the desktop and see wat ur cpu clock says!! It shud be 2.2ghz or near that!!!!

 

[rat_boy_100]

in my bios theres a setting called 'linear' and when i change it to the other one, it'll let me change the fsb. its default is either 'linear' or the other 1 that i cnt remember. but i know it locks me from changin the fsb when it is one of the two