The reason it works is because the Pentium 233 (MMX) (chip or mobo?) was
designed to interpret 1.5x as 3.5x. I
 believe this was largely due to the fact most motherboards at the time did
not have 3.5x as a multiplier.
Plus it would be a money saver because new motherboards wouldn't need to
have a 3.5x mulitplier setting.

For more info try http://www.tomshardware.com

--Patrick Black
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~black27/
----- Original Message -----
From: Graham Cunliffe <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 1999 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Tyan Tomcat III >>>>at 233MMX


> My DFI board had a similar problem, and they told me to upgrade the
> bios and set the clock multiplier to 1.5X. It worked for me for some
> reason.

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