Processor speed

Hi all.
My nephews comp has been playing up.
Randomly shutting down etc.
I suspected the mobo and after swapping stuff and having no luck I tried his processor in my mobo.
It is up and running fine so it looks like it is the mobo.
Thing is, when I run dxdiag it shows the processor as a Athlon xp 1600+ running at 1.4mhz. I thought it was a xp 2400+
Could it be that I need to change the jumpers on my mobo?
I thought that doing this would only change the speed not the name.
Ie, I have a xp 3000+ running at 2100mhz. If I change the clock speed it will still show as a 3000+ but the mhz will change.
Hope someone understands my waffle
Cheers.

 

i think its either the mobo jumpers or the clock speed setting on the mobo is not correct....

 

So are you saying that a processor doesn't have a clock speed imprinted in it?
If I change the jumpers will it tell me that it is a different processor?
Cheers

 

its does. but i think ur motherboard has the wrong clock speed setting....

 

Its actually the Motherboard Chipset that either reads the CPUID or 'guesses' the ID from the FSB and Multiplier it is running and references it to its 'list' of CPU's.

For example, I used to have an Abit AT7-MAX2 motherboard (VIA chipset) and an Athlon XP 2800+, which when overclocked would read as an XP 3200+. The same chip in my Asus A7N8X Deluxe (nForce2 chipset) would always read the correct CPUID regardless of clockspeed, as your board does.

A simple change in the BIOS/ Jumper if the board is that old will do it.

 

Aha IYTC.
That maybe the answer I was after.
You say that when it was overclocked it actually thought your pro was a different one to what it was supposed to be?
Right, as this one is running at 266 and my clock ratio is set to 10.5, which was needed for my 3000+, what I need to do is set my ratio to 15x and that will make dxdiag read it as a 2400.
Sorry if I have confused anyone, no more than myself.
Cheers.