Abit KW7 Motherboard Not Recognizing CPU Properly?

Question

I've had this motherboard for nearly 2 years with no problems. It has been fine with my Athlon XP 3200 CPU until recently.

Now, for some reason, my XP 3200 is reported in my BIOS and Windows as an XP 1900. I can see what the problem is, it won't let me have a 200 FSB anymore, but I can't figure out why. It tells me my FSB can go from 133 to 165 in increments of 1.

It picks my DDR 400 up fine but not my CPU. I've tried flashing the bios, using fail-safe defaults and optimized defaults in my BIOS, but to no avail.

I've removed the HSF, cleaned the HSF and CPU, applied new thermal compund and reseated the CPU, but still it comes up as an XP 1900.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Answer 1

I reckon you may have cooked the processor.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that the way they are configured this could happen its to do with cutting the cost of the chip architecture and that way cost can be kept down but the downside is heat. Also was it being clocked, also causing too much heat.

Answer 2

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