[mythtv-users] Athlon XP -> Athlon XP-M

[Cory Papenfuss]

 	That's about what I found out after I got off on the tangent 
yesterday for a few hours.  I figured that *if* it worked, I'd have to set 
the multipliers with a hardware hack of some sort.  It seemed like an 
awful lot of work to just reduce the power consumption a bit.

 	I still haven't seen a budget SMP motherboard system to replace 
the MPX/athlon setup of my Tyan 2466M.  It seems like any of the new 
AMD SMP is high-end and extremely expensive.

 	What's a
Dual PPro 	2x(233)		->
BP6		2x(300->450)	->
VP6		2x(750->1000)	->
2466M		2x(2400)
kinda guy supposed to do next?  :)

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss							*
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 			*
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On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Anthony Vito wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 08:54:11 -0400 (EDT), Cory Papenfuss
> <papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu> wrote:
>>
>>         Sounds interesting, but somehow I doubt my dual athlon setup would
>> allow me to play with the speeds as well.  I've already hacked my XP
>> 2400's into MP-capable.  It would be nice if I could change CPU speed on
>> the fly as well.
>>
>>         Anyone ever been successful with XP-M's on an SMP box?
>>
>
> I have never tried XP-M's on my dual board. However, I can tell you
> exactly what you need to run them. Because there is no FID coming from
> the chip ( with bridges ) you would need to set the bridges manually
> to the multipler you wanted, or use a device to intercept these pins.
> This http://www.anthonyvito.com/PKlabel.jpg is one such device. I've
> used a pair of them to overclock the chips on my Dual Athlon in the
> past, and I also recently used one to enable the use of a mobile chip
> on a Abit-VA10 uATX mainboard that lacked multiplier settings in the
> BIOS.
>
> As a side note. My dual board is the old Thunder K7, not the MPX
> chipset, so I didn't have to worry about changing anything to run dual
> XP's  :)  I love that system, liquid cooled and running for years now.
>
> --
> Anthony Vito
> anthony.vito at gmail.com
>