OT: Re: Asus P3B-F MB , Can't set the divisor to any but 5.5 ?

From: Jarno Lahteenmaki (jvlahtee@roope.telecenter.fi)
Date: Fri Feb 04 2000 - 05:28:37 EST

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    On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:

    Did you know that Intel's processors have fixed divisor. If want to
    overclock your machine you have to rise cpu core bus frequency.
     
    > I have set the Freq.'s to things other than 100Mhz . But any
    > attempt to set the divisor by the switches (yes I set the JEN
    > jumper to disable) is fruitless . The whole thing that started
    > this off is the my (brand new) memory appears to -not- be
    > asus-PC100 compatible . I was getting -really- wierd hangs &
    > oops & Gosh you name it its happened , including data corruption
    > to a couple of files I had edited (in /etc/rc.d/ area) .
    > Below is a 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' & 'dmesg'
    > Highest stable core Freq. is 83Mhz * 5.5 Divisor = 456.5Mhz
    > (458 is what dmesg says.)

    --> Jarno Lähteenmäki (04.02.2000)
    --> Telecenter Oy / Espoo

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