Questions re flashing BIOS and changing multiplier/frequency

CPU(s)
Number of CPUs 1

Code Name Barton
Specification AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2500+
Family / Model / Stepping 6 A 0
Extended Family / Model 7 A
Core Stepping
Technology 0.13 µ
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended
3DNow!, SSE
CPU Clock Speed 1100.0 MHz
Clock multiplier x 11.0
Front Side Bus Frequency 100.0 MHz
Bus Speed 200.0 MHz
L1 Data Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line
size
L1 Instruction Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes
line size
L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 1100.0 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 64 bits



Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Motherboard model A7V600, REV 1.xx
BIOS vendor Award Software, Inc.
BIOS revision ASUS A7V600 ACPI BIOS Revision 1005
BIOS release date 08/01/2003
Chipset VIA KT600 rev. 80
Southbridge VIA VT8237 rev. 0
Sensor chip FFFF

AGP Status enabled, rev. 3.5
AGP Data Transfert Rate 4x
AGP Side Band Addressing supported, not enabled
AGP Aperture Size 64 MBytes



Memory
DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size 1024 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 133.3 MHz
FSB:DRAM FSB + 33 MHz
DRAM Interleave 4-way
CAS# Latency 2.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge 3 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 6 clocks
# of memory modules 2
Module 0 DDR-SDRAM PC2700 - 512 MBytes
Module 1 DDR-SDRAM PC2700 - 512 MBytes

Voltage 1.744


Obviously my Core speed is way low however when I increase it i.e. 11 *166
or 11*200 the system will reboot automatically (CPU Temp is generally <35
deg)
in the interim before loading Windows XP.

Questions
Will flashing the BIOS help with this?
Should I reinstall Windows XP when I change the core setting?
Any other suggestions?

Patrick Tite wrote:


See my reply in alt.comp.overclocking.amd

Usually best to cross-post to a limited number of groups than post the same
message to multiple groups seperately.

Ben
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