Inupdated my BIOS to the latest (beta) that states support for the 2600 but after upgrading my CPU to this, on boot-up it states that I have a 2000 CPU.
Anybody now how to actually get it to work
Thanks
Hi
reboot system and when the first screen appears hit the delete key.
This will take you into the bios settings
select Advanced Chipset press enter and look for CPU External Frequency
As you are using an Athlon 2600 this should be set at 166Mhz.
Follow the instructions and you should have your 2600 back
cheers
alanjh
Thanks for the tip Alan
I tried it and it did indeed show up as the 2600.
The only snag was that XP would BSOD faster than I could read and then automatically re-boot.
After a few boots I received a message to say \windows\system32\config\system was corrupt and I'm now into recovering XP.
What do you think may have tripped XP ?
There are two versions on the 2600+ one with a FSB of 133Mhz and one with 166Mhz. If you have got the 166Mhz one all the other componants must be able to run at 166 mhz i.e. you must have PC2700 memory not PC2100.
The problems you mention are classic memory corruption issues which suggest you have PC2100
I may have one stick of PC2100 Memory in
I'll check
Thanks
Blasted thing still causes XP to go belly up (or at least make it appear so in this case)
Stuck a single 512 stick of 2700 and it still locks up and after a few attempts causes XP to proclaim that NTFS.SYS had been damaged or lost, although when re-setting it back to 133 XP booted up with no problems this time.