Loss of Processing Power...How did that happen?

[Titanz]

I have an AMD Athlon processor and when I bought it I had a 1.4 gigahertz processing speed then I booted up one day and instead of reading off 1400 megahertz it said 1050 megahertz...

The busclock is 66 megahertz and the main circuit board it this model ---ECS K7S5A 1.0---

Every test I run on my pc they alway come up saying that I have a 1050 megahertz processor but I know that this is incorrect but have no clue how to fix it.

Someone said to check my FSB I might be running at 100 instead of 133 but I don't even know what the FSB is or how to do anything in Bios.... Please any help is appreciated 350 megahertz is alot of processing power to be losing.

When your PC boots, it should show at the bottom of the screen that you need to press 'F1' or 'F2' or 'DEL' to get into the BIOS.

I'm not familiar w/ the ECS BIOS, but you're looking for something like "Advanced Chipset Features".

Look for "CPU PnP Setup" in the BIOS.

[brian0555]

yup rick hit it on the head. Hit delete when your at the bios. then select cpu pnp setup, and hit page up or page down to change the FSB settings to 133/133. press escape once, and then f10 to save and exit.

[Titanz]

Thank You guys very much... That did it i'm running at 1400meghertz again. Thank you again.

[DanU]

What may have caused the change is a weak CMOS battery. This is a fairly common complaint with the K7S5A. A simple battery change will fix this.

[milkdanman]

I've had the same problem with my processor, went from 1.67Ghz to 1.25Ghz. I've tried hitting delete like you said above, I can see a 'PNP/PCI configuration' menu but I can't see any options to change the FSB settings. any ideas?

Thanks.

[Titanz]

Yes when you go in to Pnp settings it should set you on CPU freqency just hit Page Up or Page Down to set it to 133/133 then just hit esc go to exit and save then you computer will restart and back to normal .