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Winston Pike <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:23:50 -0400
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>Hi.
>I've observed in mobos previous to MMX socket 7 pentia, but which had 2.8V
>supply, that in spite of setting correctly the multipliers (1.5 for 233
>chip, others normal), upgrading to a MMX Intel Pentium chip gives unexpected
>results (a wrong frequency, such as 166 instead of 200, 133 instead of 233,
>etc). I've seen it in different brand mobos, all of the P133 (classic) era.
>I suppose these mobos have something wrong with the multipliers, being
>previous to real MMX chips.
>Can someone confirm this, and/or provide a workaround?
>************************************
I'm getting a simular problem but mine is with a 486 DX4-100.
The mobo is set to 33MHz, the 5v to 3v adapter is set to x3.
When booting the it reports 66MHz but once into DOS, SYSCHK
reports 100MHz.

Winston

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