On Monday 11 September 2006 02:51, Grant wrote: > Does anyone know of a way to set your system's front side bus speed in > software? My Dell motherboard and BIOS don't seem to have any > facility for it, and I've heard there is a utility in Windows that > will allow you to set it.
Isn't there a jumper or two on the circuit board that you should dis/connect according to the MoBo's manual to effect this? MoBos that don't have either a BIOS menu choice or a jumper set up and rely on a software hack perhaps mean that they are not meant to run (reliably) at anything other than default speeds - on the other hand it may just mean that HP/Dell/etc. were providing something cheap & cheerful with my granny in mind and couldn't be bothered to fic their buggy BIOS'. With Gentoo compiling its own software the demands placed on a machine are somewhat more onerous than that seen by a typical M$Windoze setup. -- Regards, Mick
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