Hello all,
First I would like to say I was pointed here by a friend when I described my problem. I tried to search around to see if anyone else posted this same scenario but I was unable to find it.
Here's the situation:
Three people I know purchased this exact same CPU (all from New Egg). Specifically, AMD|1800+/266 ATHLON 1.53G XP.
In my case, I assembled everything and, with default settings, powered on. Everything worked and I got it to POST correctly. This was at 1150 mhz. (10.5x and 100 mhz.). I then took it down to try and up it to 11.5x and 133 mhz. to get the desired speed capabilities. Nothing happened. Tried it back the way it was. Nothing. In essence, no matter what I did, it wouldn't POST no matter what after this point.
Person #2 had the exact same events take place, only he was able to POST at 10.5x and 100 mhz. (default) two times before the CPU died and was totally unfuctional afterwards (the same thing that happened to me).
Person #3 had the exact same events take place, only was and still is able to POST at 10.5x and 100 mhz. (default) but cannot POST at anything else.
My question is, what in the hell is going on? Surely this cannot be normal? Did we all get a 'bad batch' of CPUs? One of my friends mentioned that it is not uncommon for AMDs to not be able to accept increased speeds but this is absurd.
I sent it back via RMA and I guess I'm just going to wait and see what happens next time but am I just being naive and this is totally normal or something?
First I would like to say I was pointed here by a friend when I described my problem. I tried to search around to see if anyone else posted this same scenario but I was unable to find it.
Here's the situation:
Three people I know purchased this exact same CPU (all from New Egg). Specifically, AMD|1800+/266 ATHLON 1.53G XP.
In my case, I assembled everything and, with default settings, powered on. Everything worked and I got it to POST correctly. This was at 1150 mhz. (10.5x and 100 mhz.). I then took it down to try and up it to 11.5x and 133 mhz. to get the desired speed capabilities. Nothing happened. Tried it back the way it was. Nothing. In essence, no matter what I did, it wouldn't POST no matter what after this point.
Person #2 had the exact same events take place, only he was able to POST at 10.5x and 100 mhz. (default) two times before the CPU died and was totally unfuctional afterwards (the same thing that happened to me).
Person #3 had the exact same events take place, only was and still is able to POST at 10.5x and 100 mhz. (default) but cannot POST at anything else.
My question is, what in the hell is going on? Surely this cannot be normal? Did we all get a 'bad batch' of CPUs? One of my friends mentioned that it is not uncommon for AMDs to not be able to accept increased speeds but this is absurd.
I sent it back via RMA and I guess I'm just going to wait and see what happens next time but am I just being naive and this is totally normal or something?