Random Restarts

[war59312]

Sounds good. Also, here is another good place to look at crashes.

drwtsn32

[PCTech]

I was checking the clock speed of my CPU and it said this "AMD Athlon 1900 @ 810Mhz" I was like WTF? I was getting errors out the wazoo, lockups and everything, so I went into bios and loaded the optimized defaults and now its back up to 1.6Ghz (1900XP+) Any reason it should do that? I was like damn my CPU is going bad, maybe even my MB also. Are they going bad or is something else happening? Maybe a fluke? Any advice is appreciated

Thanks,
~PCTech

[unicorn]

Probably no worries with that.
Award BIOS? After some sorts of BSODs (not all, I don't know what the trigger is) the BIOS automatically changes settings to a slow and safe speed. The cure is of course to boot into BIOS and set it back to the default values/where it is supposed to be.

Now the above is a guess. My AMD 1600+ is supposed to run at 1450 MHz (I think) but when this function is triggered it goes down to 1050 MHz. Every time it makes me buffled. It doesn't happen often, it's like a few times a year and so I forgot about it every time. The result is a looooong boot and everything working sloooow.
Yours is going down even more. Maybe it is supposed to do that or my guess is good but bad.

[war59312]

Yes it goes down to the default, safe, Front Side Bus for your mother board. It my case that's 100mhz and therefor when this happens my 2200+ turns into a 1500+ and my 2600+ turns into a 2200+ since the motherboard I use with it is 133mhz, and yea the fsb for it is 166mhz.

Now you should understand. If not then just change your fsb around to see the results. Like when I first install my two amds the both were running at the defualt speed. So of course it seems you only have a 1500+ and a 2200+ instead of a 2200+ and a 2600+.

I'm sure its going to stay this way for a very long time and it should. Even though I do think the first time around, when you first install the chip and turn on system. It should auto decect the correct fsb for you. But still reset to the save defualt level when something goes wrong.

Just my 2 cents.

cya,
Will

[PCTech]

Thanks that clears up a whole bunch. Mine defaults to 100mhz fsb which is amd athlon 1200. Thanks for your help war!

Thank you,
~PCTech