When I load my pc it shows as 1100Mhz, when it used to be 2200Mhz, Its an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 400FSB I thought it may be a multiplyer on the mobo, but I can't find any on there, the only one on there is the clear the CMOS? the bios settings I think. Anyway, I'll wait a little while for a response, but i g2g in a min. Thank you, Craig.

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Ok,
So it worked OK previously before.
Did you overclock the CPU?
Add any other new hardware recently?
Any other symptoms besides CPU slowndown on startup?
Might be a RAM card/ chip failure - ("DoCMemory" RAM tester is good).
You could try re-setting your CMOS settings if you installed any new hardware that was incompatible with the systemboard. Otherwise unless a virus trashed your BIOS program it's a dead end. You won't know that unless you a complete system scan for bugs first & ID the specific critter that did it.
Need more details-
Get back to me
RGPHNX

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Check the Overclocking setting. I am sure you have messed it over there.

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Pardon, I'm thinking of buying an AMD 64 3000+ for my new gaming rig. how many GHz is it? my friend said it was equal to 3.0 GHz, but you say you have a 2.2 GHz 3200+.... I'm confused.

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My AMD Athlon XP 3200+ is 2.2ghz, but runs the same (if not better) as a Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz


Here is a list for Athlon XP's (Not 64's), it shows what they run at.

1500 - 1.33 GHz
1600 - 1.40 GHz
1700 - 1.47 GHz
1800 - 1.53 GHz
1900 - 1.60 GHz
2000 - 1.67 GHz
2100 - 1.73 GHz
2200 - 1.80 GHz
2400 - 1.93 GHz
2500 - 1.833 GHz
2600 - 2.133 GHz
2700 - 2.17 GHz
2800 - 2.083 GHz
3000 - 2.167 GHz
3200 - 2.20 GHz

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Oh, ok. thanks for the help!

does it make any difference that the one I'm buying is an Athlon XP 64?

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Like I said, that list is the Athlon XP, not the 64 bit range,

But the speeds should not be far off, if not the same...

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Cragllo,
From the info you posted it looks like you overclocked the CPU ??
Is that the case ?????? If so re-set to the default settings & do a hardware system diagnostic for true actual CPU speed to check out if the CPU is screwed. Also, the "Motheboard monitor" program is helpful to check temps etc. to see if heat buildup (from overclocking & other sources) has potentially toasted the front or rear BUS on the systemboard. You won't get an actual transfer rate readout on the BUS 's (from "Motherboard Monitor" program ) but if the temp is very high then its bad news :-( . You can go from there with a hardware "burn in" tester program to get a more accurate actual performance benchmark for other hardware problems associated with the slow CPU symptom.
It's been my experience that tha manufacturers advertised CPU speed ratings are just estimates. Actual CPU speed performance for a particular CPU can vary as much as 5-10% on a "good" chip depending on the programs loaded & the system configuration. But you seem to be way outside that range. so there's defintely something else going on. Get back to me with more preformance symptoms AND/ OR configuration details and we can go from there.
Hope this helps
RGPHNX

 

 

 

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Everything is stock, I havent overclocked anything, the CPU temp is about 38*C

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Cragllo,
Ok, everything stock. Temp seems OK.
Any other weird symptoms?? Give me something else to go on.
RGPHNX
PS- Posted an answer to the e-mail problem your experiencing on other post, but don't think its related to the CPU issue here. It shouldn't slow the CPU speed to the 1.1 GHz you reported

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