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On 10 Oct 99, at 15:03, Reinaldo Rodriguez wrote:
> Question to the list. I'm working on a Dell XPS 333 MHz system
> that was completely dead. I narrowed it down to the processor when
> I substituted a known good PII 266. It boots fine now, but bios
> only recognizes it as a 133. There are no jumpers on the mobo, and
> setup doesn't allow for softmenu configuration. Any ideas? Just
> don't wanna buy another PII 333, and later find out its a mobo
> problem.
It's quite possible that the 5x setting used by the 333 CPU looks,
to the 266 CPU, like a 2x setting. I wouldn't assume a mobo problem -
- replacing the CPU is changing it from "dead" to "not dead", and
that's as much of a diagnostic as I'd depend on without matching the
CPU spec more closely.
David G
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