Subject: Re: Pentium MB's
From: Richard Mckinney (mckinney@gci.net)
Date: Sat Jul 20 2002 - 18:09:58 AKDT
You can get the motherboard make/model most of the time by looking up the
bios string that is displyed on the lower left part of the screen right
after boot up.
Do a search for that string and you should be able to find it. If you have
problems drop me an e-mail as I have done this far too much and might even
be able to dump some of my old p54c/55c stuff on you (pentium with out/with
MMX).
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "civileme" <civileme@mandrakesoft.com>
To: "Adam Elkins" <i-robot@gci.net>; "Aklug" <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: Pentium MB's
>
> On Friday 19 July 2002 09:01 pm, Adam Elkins wrote:
> > On an old Pentium motherboard, when you upgrade to a higher cpu, is
> > there something in the BIOS you need to do? I just replaced a 100 with a
> > 166, and it's still saying it's a 100. A jumper maybe?
> >
> > Adam
> >
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> Uf
>
> Yep, you need to set a COUPLE of jumpers.
>
> One set of jumpers is for system bus speed... It could be set to 50, 60,
or
> 66 on m9ost boards and should not be set beyond 66 for Pentiums and early
PCI
> buses... An SiS 5571 chipset will manage 75 and probably not overclock
the
> PCI bus. Most likely for a P100 this will be set to 66 but it may be set
to
> 50.
>
> Now the other jumper set is the CPU multiplier (a misnomer really since it
is
> all dividing some crystal oscillator) which will run the CPU at a multiple
of
> the Bus speed. IN this case you want 2.5 times 66. If the P100 was
running
> at 1.5 times 66 (normal) then that is the only jumper to change, but if it
> was running at 2 times 50, then the bus speed should be changed.
>
> Now the question is, "Which Jumpers?"
>
> Well for this you need a manual
>
> And for the manual, you need to know the manufacturer and model
>
> And for that, if it is not marked on the board you have to dredge up a
number
> silk-screened somewhere on the board that is the FCC identifier. It might
> also be etched copper wave-soldered, but it must be there. No computers
> sold in the US or likely elsewhere would be without one, at least not
those
> intended for unshielded rooms.
>
> So FIND the FCC ID then go here:
>
> http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/
>
> And you can get the manufacturer and perhaps the model.
>
> Then you use a google search for the manufacturer to get manuals... I say
do
> that because about 25 brand names will lead you to the same manufacturer
of
> terrible boards,
>
> Once on the manufacturer site you can download the manual. Caution, some
> idiot manufacturers put their manuals exclusively in .doc format. I
never
> buy their products, but I have run across their execrable sites in doing
tech
> support.
>
> Civileme
>
>
>
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