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


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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