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Bluesguitar · January 20th, 2005, 05:42 PM

Hey, to start off with, my system is:
ABIT NF7-S motherboard
AMD Athlon XP 3000+
1 Gb ram
Radeon 9600

I've had my computer for a little over a year now and it started overheating a little while back (although that's not my question here). Now when I boot up my computer, it does the initial check and comes up with an error:
CPU is unworkable or has been changed. Please recheck - CPU SOFT MENU

I hit del to enter setup and at the top of the soft menu page it reads
CPU Name Is AMD Athlon XP
CPU Inernal Frequency 1300 Mhz (100x13.0) (these two lines are grayed out)
CPU Operating Speed 3000+ (which is what it should be)

In Windows XP (I also have Red Hat 9 installed) the system menu tells me the CPU is at 1.29 GHz and MBM tells me that it's at roughly the same (1.26 GHz)

Is there any way to get my system to recognize the right CPU again?

January 20th, 2005, 05:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
Bluesguitar Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: NE Posts: 201	Computer detects wrong CPU Hey, to start off with, my system is: ABIT NF7-S motherboard AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 1 Gb ram Radeon 9600 I've had my computer for a little over a year now and it started overheating a little while back (although that's not my question here). Now when I boot up my computer, it does the initial check and comes up with an error: CPU is unworkable or has been changed. Please recheck - CPU SOFT MENU I hit del to enter setup and at the top of the soft menu page it reads CPU Name Is AMD Athlon XP CPU Inernal Frequency 1300 Mhz (100x13.0) (these two lines are grayed out) CPU Operating Speed 3000+ (which is what it should be) In Windows XP (I also have Red Hat 9 installed) the system menu tells me the CPU is at 1.29 GHz and MBM tells me that it's at roughly the same (1.26 GHz) Is there any way to get my system to recognize the right CPU again?