ECS K7S5A 1.0 running at 66 MHz??

[slnorth]

From Belarc I was able to get some great stats on one of my old patched together machines. Now that I've been able to capture long forgotten info about it, I've notice what may be disturbing info to me. Can anyone shed some light on this?

Thank You

Isn't the clock speed suppose to be 266?
It's using SDRAM PC100 right now, does it really make it THAT slow?
I could swear I saw it running at 1.5 gigahertz before, does it fluctuate that much with heat or other variable conditions? It was purchased as a Thoroughbred 1800
I'm guessing the k7s5a "1.0" means it's rev.# as opposed to a non revised or the rev. 3.x. I think that means instead of being stuck with max PC2100 I can now use the PC2700.
This is why it took 6 hrs just to render an AVI to 60min worth of DVD (the video card used was a Guillmont 3d prophet IImx 32mb and I used Pinnacle deluxe "8")?

System Model
ECS K7S5A 1.0
Asset Tag: 0123ABC
Main Circuit Board b Board: ECS K7S5A 1.0
Bus Clock: 66 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 07.00T 04/02/01
Memory Modules c,d -
512 Megabytes Installed Memory
Slot '0' has 256 MB
Slot '1' has 256 MB
Slot '2' is Empty
Slot '3' is Empty
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1 (build 2600)
1.15 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache

[redwudz]

Had that board for a while. Bus speed should be 100 or 133Mhz. With DDR memory (X2) that would be 200 or 266 FSB speed. XP1800+ runs a 1.53Ghz. Can't see much difference between Rev 1 and Rev 3. DDR200 or DDR266 will give you a FSB speed of 200 to 266Mhz. Probably PC100 would run at 100Mhz. I would check the bios to see what the settings are.

[wulf109]

Install a program called WCPUID,it will provide information on your bus,cpu,and memory speeds. I have a ECS K7S5A Ver1.0 and it only runs at 100 or 133 bus. Memory would have little if any effect on encode speed.

[Richard_G]

The early K7S5A didn't support the XP processors, only the earlier non XP Athlons up to 1.4GHz. I supect that it can't work out what processor it has in it and thinks it is something completely different. To run a 1.8GHz XP processor you need revision 3 or later of the K7S5A.

[wulf109]

Bios updates allow Ver 1.0 to run anything. I just put a Duron 1.6 Applebred CPU in it and it runs perfectly. The Duron 1.6 uses the .13 core and all the features of the Thoroughbred line except the additional cache.

[slnorth]

Thank you for the responses! I Installed the WCPUID and got the following info compared to Belarc's. What I wonder is if sys clock and bus clock are the same thing but different terms and if they are there is a big difference in speed from the 2 reports below. Now I'm confused at what the sys Bus speed is about it's been so long since I've dealt with this stuff.

WCPUID Version 3.1a (c) 1996-2002 By H.Oda! ]
Internal Clock : 1145.13 MHz
System Bus : 199.15 MHz DDR
System Clock : 99.58 MHz
Multiplier : 11.5

Belarc,
System Model ECS K7S5A 1.0
Asset Tag: 0123ABC
Main Circuit Board b
Board: ECS K7S5A 1.0
Bus Clock: 66 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 07.00T 04/02/01

I looked at he bios options 100/133, I think one was for bus and one for clock. I use optimize and it set things at 100.

I downloaded the upgrade file Aminf335.exe from ECS but I'm still having troubles with how the mechanics work on flashing. The instructions are a bit off at the web site. I'll keep working on that.

If I used a DDR RAM then I'd get the higher clock speed and if I could get the bios flash upgrade then I think I can use PC2700 too?


Thanks all

[redwudz]

Here's a site you might check: http://www.ocworkbench.com/2002/ecs/k7s5aguide/
I found it with Google. There were some others there, just type in 'K7S5A'. It's a popular board, even the v1 when it came out.

[wulf109]

Since no Duron or Athlon runs at a clock of 11.5 I'm guessing that your CPU is an XP1800+. In the BIOS set at 133/133. The first number is the bus speed the second number is the memory speed.

[slnorth]

KABOOM I bumped the bios to 133/133 and now it recognized the XP1800+ and the numbers jumped up as well.

Belarc still shows a 66Mhz bus clock so there must be a glitch in that somewhere.

I checked out the ocworkbench site and great info and more homework to do.

Thanks all for the help


[ WCPUID Version 3.1a (c) 1996-2002 By H.Oda! ]
Processor #1 : AMD Athlon XP (Model 8") / 48716D4A
Platform : Socket A (Socket 462)
Vendor String : AuthenticAMD
Name String : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+

Internal Clock : 1526.83 MHz
System Bus : 265.54 MHz DDR
System Clock : 132.77 MHz
Multiplier : 11.5

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