AMD Phenom II X4 995 running slow. HELP!

[$eamonk3y]

I'm gonna thank you in advance - seems like you really put in some effort to help.

THANKS!

Will post results...

[$eamonk3y]

afraid it doesnt allow me to update - doesnt seem to be compatible with my OS - windows 7 even though it says that it is for the windows 7 64 bit version!

NOOOO

[no_numb]

DMI
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DMI BIOS
vendor American Megatrends Inc.
version 080015
date 02/16/2009

DMI System Information
manufacturer To Be Filled By O.E.M.
product To Be Filled By O.E.M.
version To Be Filled By O.E.M.
serial To Be Filled By O.E.M.
UUID 00020003-00040005-00060007-00080009

DMI Baseboard
vendor Sapphire Tech
model PC-AM3RS790G
revision VER:01
serial To be filled by O.E.M.

DMI System Enclosure
manufacturer To Be Filled By O.E.M.
chassis type Desktop
chassis serial To Be Filled By O.E.M.

DMI Processor
manufacturer AMD
model AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor
clock speed 800.0 MHz
FSB speed 200.0 MHz
multiplier 4.0x

As someone else said should this not be set to 16x as in 16 x 200. Perhaps it was set to 200 x 4 as cool and quiet was enabled and now its disables its gone to the default value of 200 x 4 rather than full speed.

Might still be that the bios is in need of updating.

[watercooled]

Yeah it sounds like you need a BIOS update. It doesn't matter what OS you're using - what is the make/model of the motherboard?

[no_numb]

Yeah it sounds like you need a BIOS update. It doesn't matter what OS you're using - what is the make/model of the motherboard?

vendor Sapphire Tech
model PC-AM3RS790G

http://www1.sapphiretech.com/uk/prod...pid=292&grp=10

I think its that one

This page has the bios downloads
http://www.sapphiretech.com/presenta...id=362&pid=250

And lists
add Phenom II AGESA code - 2009/4/17
I dont know if thats something usefull but it looks like it could be

[$eamonk3y]

When I double click the .bat file, it says that it is not compatible with 64 bit versions of Windows even though I selected 64 bit. I think Sapphire has screwed up - I really wish I got a Gigabyte one!

Does anyone know how to make it work?

[scaryjim]

OK, the big question - do you have a floppy drive? If not this could get complex.

It would appear that Sapphire haven't implemented an EZFlash type technology (this allows updating the BIOS from within the BIOS - voodooish or what!), so you'll need to boot into a DOS environment and run the update. The usual (well, old school) way of doing this is to boot your PC off a floppy disk with a minimal DOS environment.

If you don't have a floppy drive you'll have to look at doing this from a bootable CD (or a USB drive, but given that one of the BIOS enhancements since yours is to make USB drives bootable I don't think that'll work for you!). http://www.bootdisk.com/ have some suitable instructions (see the "Bootable CD" header about 1/4 of the way down), but a google search (flash BIOS from CD or Bootable DOS CD would be god starting points) should produce other options.

Alternatively, Windows 7 might have it's own built in program for making bootable disks (earlier versions certainly allowed you to create boot floppies) but I've not looked into that...

EDIT: it would also be worth looking at http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#clean which has useful step-by-step instructions and freeware packages specifically designed for updating your BIOS from a clean boot CD-ROM

[watercooled]

OK so it looks as though this is the latest version of the BIOS: http://us.sapphiretech.com/drivers/P...7625795000.zip
You'll also want to download this: http://us.sapphiretech.com/drivers/u...90619_8590.zip
Find a spare USB flash drive or just use one you already have after moving your stuff off it and formatting. Then, extract the USB format zip and run the exe 'HPUSBFW.EXE' with admin privileges (right click - run as admin) then select your USB drive in the dropdown menu, set the filesystem to FAT32 and put a tick in quick format and Create a DOS startup disk. 'Use the files located at' should point towards the 'DOS Files' folder which was included in the zip archive then press start. The flash drive is now bootable. Then, from the other zip archive, the one with the BIOS files, copy over everything to the root of the flash drive and reboot your system. Make sure you boot from the flash drive, there should be a button to press, often F8 or something, to select boot device. When you arrive at a command prompt type flash.bat and press enter.
After completing the flash you'll probably want to do a normal format of the flash drive to make it non-bootable before copying everything back.

[scaryjim]

You'll also want to download this: http://us.sapphiretech.com/drivers/u...90619_8590.zip

Ah, I misread the page: the linky watercooled has done here will make a nice bootable USB stick so you don't have to mess around burning CDs (I misread it as being a BIOS update to allow booting off USB drives - doh!). Then again, if this doesn't work at least you know you have another option!