Paul wrote:
Hi,
My old motherboard and processor bit the dust at the end of last week
and so I've fitted a Semperon (Athlon changed their x86 processor names
to Semperon - Aths are now all x64) on a Gigabyte GA7N400 board.
Now, if I have the processor set at 1GHz, it is recognised as an Athlon
and will boot happily. If I switch it to be the 2.4GHz Semperon that it
is, I get kernel panics and some very odd noises from the machine
itself.
Did you update the bios ? After AMD released the Sempron line , most
manufacturers released bios updates to properly recognize those new
processors.. maybe when you set it to 2.4 , you're in fact doing a heavy
overclock (making it almost an athlon 3200+) , which *could* be the
explanation for the noises...
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Pedro Macedo