Motherboard - CPU speed wrong?????

[Jay300zx]

Hi - I have a Gigabyte GA-8IRXP Mobo with an Intel P4 2.6Ghz Proc.

On boot up it reports it running at 1.31 Ghz even though its recongnized by Windows as a 2.6 running at 1.3.

In the manual the bios shows there should be a cpu clock ratio multiplier option (its set to x13)
on my bios (the latest one) (f9) this option isnt there.

Anyone help?

Thanks

 

[ShepsCrook]

Well, can you get into the Bios? When you find the section for CPU settings, is there a manual / Auto setting you need to change that you overlooked?

 

[EuroTrash]

Did you put this cpu and mb together? You may have to move a jumper on your board. I had this problem a few years back. The jumper limited the speed on the processor to almost half.

 

[Jay300zx]

cheers, yes I can get into biuos, but cannot find the multiplier anywhere. can find everything but that.

as for the jumper - had a look around mbd - is there one on the GA-8IRXP board that does that?

Will get manual and re-read later - cheers.

 

[ShepsCrook]

If you can, take some pictures of your bios screens that you do have so we can see maybe where the option could be.

 

[Jay300zx]

cheers -
no jumpers - so its not that.

The Bios rev F2 (shown as an example in the user manual) - shows clearly a clock multiplier on the FREQ Setup Screen

My Bios (F9) has had it removed. Its not anywhere - Ive been through every page 10 times over.
Ive tried recovering or booting to second bios (its a DUAL Bios).

Ive been on the Giga-byte site and can only get Bios Rev F7, F8 and F9.

 

[ming]

You might be running the cpu underclocked as default, but using Gigabyte's overclocking software in windows to push up the speed.