Clock Speed Being Reported Incorrectly

[Orkney]

Good Afternoon,

I recently experienced some computer instability after many years of problem-free computing. Machine has taken to freezing occasionally during web-surfing and, sometimes, right after boot-up. I also noticed at post that the clock speed is being incorrectly reported.

Machine is:

AMD Athlon XP 1700 (previously posted as 1.46GHz...now appearing as 1.10)
ECS K7S5A mobo
768Mb DDR RAM (266)
40Gb Quantam Fireball HDD

Virus checker is up to date...scanned yesterday...nothing appeared
Running Ad-Aware and Spybot...scanned using both...just the usual...deleted
CMOS battery appears to be fine (3+V)...checked in setup.
Only new software installed recently was AFTER the instability started (iPod stuff and iTunes).

If anyone has any suggestions as to why the problems are occuring, I would appreciate the help.

TIA,
Orkney

[Jackthemeangiant]

Your FSB has been reset to 100mhz. Enter the BIOS at startup and set the FSB to 133mhz.

Just ask if you need further assistance in doing this.

[woodpusher]

An incorrect clock reporting is usually caused by a bad CMOS battery. How do you know it's fine?
You can also test your memory: http://www.memtest86.com/
And download diagnostic software from the HDD manufaturers website.
Either memory or harddrive or powersupply is the usual but not only reason for freezing.

[AMD]

When the CMOS battery is dead, the time gets lost and a checksum error message is displayed upon each cold boot. Sometimes CPU settings can be lost due to power fluctuation or a bad shutdown.

[Orkney]

Your FSB has been reset to 100mhz. Enter the BIOS at startup and set the FSB to 133mhz.

Just ask if you need further assistance in doing this.

Done. Thank you. Looks like it may be the battery as my clock is also giving me grief. Thank you for your assistance.

Orkney