I have an old Toshiba Equium that I tried to upgrade for kicks. I replaced the 233MHz PII with a 333Mhz PII since the bus runs @ 66MHz anyway and did not think that it would be an issue. When I checked to see if the Bios recognized the upgraded CPU, it did, and there were no problems except for something screwy with the L2 cache that it was not recognizing (cache failure it said), but it runs despite this (for the last month). Yesterday I was running Belarc Advisor (a monitoring program) and it said that the CPU speed was 233MHz and I went into the Bios and it said the CPU speed was 233MHz. Why did it change all of a sudden and is only being recognized as a 233? Can something be done to rectify this?

Well, it could be Motherboard problem, but did u cleared BIOS via Jumper or Battery when u changed the CPU?

Also make sure that in BIOS "L2" cache is "Enabled"

err, if your bios has it change the multiplier, if the multiplier adjustment is on nice jumpers on your motherboard, your motherboard manual would be useful.

Dont disturb Mr. Vance, Lawrence, he's playing Half Life2 on his P-II now, that's why never bothered to reply back. I really dont like such persons.

Pardon my rudeness! Not intentional! I just have not had time to respond! Any info re: my question was and is appreciated..to be sure!