   Hardware Help (my megahurtz are missing!)
  I just built a basic system with a PIV 2.4GHz processor and a PC Chips M925G v9.1b motherboard. Except that the clockspeed I'm getting is 1.6GHz. Initially, it read 1.2GHz, but this was due to the CPU frequency set to 100MHz. Changed the jumpers on the motherboard for 133MHz and I got a clockspeed of 1.6GHz. I can't change the CPU ratio or frequency in my BIOS as this is locked.In Windows System Properties (right-click on My Computer and click on Properties), it displays "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz 1.60GHz" as the processor information, and that's pretty weird.I've searched for useful info on Google and looked through the motherboard manual over and over and I haven't been able to find anything to solve this problem. Or rather, I really don't understand what's going on... I mean, with things like the Front Side Bus? I have absolutely no idea the clockspeed is calculated or anything. That's 800MHz, missing! So I'm turning to the wonderful members of GDNet for help.Any ideas as to how I can resolve this?Thanks.   
  You should probably check ur megahurtz 4 free since it looks like they've been st0l3d.   ;  What is your CPU's multiplier?  Try CPU-Z to obtain that information.Your Front Side Bus looks a little too low, but I am not that familiar with Pentium 4s. Do you have any of these models?;  Here's some of the info I was able to get with CPU-ZCode Name: Northwood (yes, one of the models listed in that Wikipedia entry)Core Speed: 1596.0 MHzMultiplier: x12.0FSB: 133.0MHzBus Speed: 532.0 MHz   ;  Check what FSB speed your processor is supposed to have, and divide by 4 to get the actual speed. For a 2.4 GHz processor, it should be (12.0x200MHz) or (18.0x133MHz) or (24.0x100MHz). (That last one is really old; I doubt you'll see many systems now with 400MHz FSB.)If your FSB is supposed to be 800MHz, you're in luck. Just change your motherboard clock to 200MHz and you're good.If it's supposed to be 533MHz FSB (like mine is), you'll have to figure out some way to change the clock multiplier to 18.0.Northwoods exist in both 533 and 800 MHz FSB, so we need to know which you have.Good luck!   