AMD CPU not booting properly.....

[mykel]

I just got my new 1.2ghz amd athlon cpu and when I set the fsb to 133mhz it doesn't get to windows.. My mobo is ECS K7VZA and the only available fsb speed is 100 to 112mhz and when I set the jumper to 133mhz, the only available fsb is 133mhz.. I don't know what the default setting for the cpu.. I need your help guys..
also when I try to boot it on 112 mhz=1.008GHZ it goes to windows w/o problem.. Please help me out guys.. Thanks...
system specs..
1.2ghz athlon 266mhz
ecs k7vza mobo
256MB pc133 sdram

[jokostel]

does the motherboard you have have a kt133 chipset? is so youre out of luck, that chipset runs at the very maximum 115mhz fsb x2 sooo. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif but if you have the kt133a chipset memory settings may be your problem... is there a setting on youre motherboard to determine if the memroy is 100 or 133 ??
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jokostel

[Peter M]

So if that's an older K7VZA that doesn't yet have the KT133A north bridge chip, then you're out of luck with that CPU - as you would with any other mainboard that still has the KT133.

K7VZA rev. 3 brought the KT133A and thus 133 MHz CPU bus capability (what you refer to as 266 actually is 133 DDR).

regards, Peter