Just plain annoying hardware problem

[Monkeyboy]

My pc seems to have developed an annoying problem...sometimes when i reboot, it detects the multiplier of the cpu at 8.5x rather than the 12.5x that it should be...if i then reset, everything is back to normal...I have no multiplier settings in bios, although i have cranked up the FSB slightly (180 at the mo, rather than 166)...any ideas? Help me geeks!

My spec, btw:
Athalon 2600XP+@2.25GHz
ASRock K7S8XE Mobo
512Mb PC2700 RAM
Saphirre Radeon 9200 Graphics
WinXP Pro

[terrorbite]

Updating the BIOS is worth a try.

[Monkeyboy]

I tried that...running the newest version (1.80) at the mo.

[terrorbite]

Dunno what else to suggest personally.

[Monkeyboy]

mmm well thanks anyway. I can't seem to find any pattern behind why its doing it... i know its not a heat problem, everything's running cool and i'm not having any other buggy behaviour, just that. Is truly odd

[wyrd_fish]

apparantly AMDs dislike FSB changes, and its safer to just oc the multiplyer...