Thanks, Alec, Kirk, and Kevin,
So does flashing the bios change the bus frequencies and bus multiples?
My understanding is that the highest speed processor a motherboard can
support is (max bus freq) x (max bus mult). For the asus p2b-ds, this
would be 112 x 5 = 560 MHz. Is this right? Also, I don't have a
windows or dos partition on my Linux machines. Can I still flash the
bios? Thanks,
Hidong
Alec Smith wrote:
>
> Based on my experiences, and what I've seen of various motherboards you
> should be able to upgrade to 850Mhz, but no further. Basically you'll need
> to get the latest BIOS for your board (which has hopefully been updated to
> support up to 850Mhz). The Coppermine PIIIs come in two flavors -- a
> 100Mhz FSB version that maxes at 850Mhz and a 133Mhz FSB version that is
> now up to 1.133Ghz. You'll want the 100Mhz FSB variant.
>
> I know for a fact the above is supported by Abit and Tyan boards, so I
> would expect Asus has updated their BIOS as well.
>
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Hidong Kim wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking to upgrade our two Red Hat 6.1 machines. They both have the
> > asus p2b-ds motherboard, and dual 350 MHz piiis. According to the
> > motherboard manual, the maximum fsb frequency is 112 MHz, and the
> > maximum bus multiplier is 5.0. According to this, I figure that this
> > motherboard will support at most a 560 MHz processor. On the asus web
> > site
> > http://www.asus.com/Products/Motherboard/Pentiumpro/P2b-ds/feature.html,
> > it says that this motherboard can support "600+MHz" processors. How is
> > this possible? Especially when the manual says that fsb frequencies
> > above 100 MHz are not guaranteed to be stable? Also, is anyone running
> > Red Hat 6.1 on a socket a athlon? Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> > Hidong
> >
> >
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