Help kt4v amd 3200+

Question

i have just bought a AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 2.2 Ghz 400FSB 512K will it work with my kt4v motherboard or do i need a new board
AMD XP2600+
1.5gig  PC2600 Kingston
MSI KT4V
NVIDIA GFORCE 440MX
2= 120 GIG SEAGATE ULTRA
2= 160 GIG SEAGATE ULTRA
SONY 4X DUR-500ADVD WRITER
LG 8X DVDRAM GSA-4081B
SONY DVD ROM DDU1621
550W JSP Sprite PSU
Windows MEDIA EDITION

Answer 1

give it a try and you'll see (you bought it,after all,no?), their official cpu-supported cpu is rather boring ...., they rarely say something about mobiles, which are supported by bios (half-way, but run fine), btw: you should be at least able to boot it, cause you'll start @ 100 mhz fsb .....
 (why they tell you it's not supported? cause pci/agp devices will have to run @ higher speed than their specification => 200 mhz fsb with divider 5 => 40 mhz instead of 33 (agp 80) - as I just wrote hour ago somewhere else on this forum, some devices can take it.,but for example some cheapo soundcards cannot...., I have not measured that gf4 mx440, but I eventually will ...)
but you must be kidding about your memory speed rating : 2600 => get real, for 400 MHZ cpu you'll need 3200 or better (as kt4v has just 333 fsb, it may juggle the memory timings high up on some fsb setting ..... (no problem running memory on 400 within 333 range :-) )
and just one note about mem: as you have the 1.5gig, the board won't allow ram to have 400 mhz setting, as it's supported just for one module inserted, so you'll get your ram running @ about 433 mhz around fsb set to 200 mhz -> and this may be the reason why you won't boot @ 200 fsb
just note that if you manage to boot, check if the board is feeding the cpu with the right voltage ... it should, as the codes are standartized for the whole cpu line, but this may be a little critical, if whatever .....