Athlon XP 2400+ into a ECS K7S5A motherboard?

hello everyone,

I have a computer with a K7S5A motherboard and an AMD Duron processor
running at a clock speed of 1.2GHz and 512MB of DDR ram. I originally
bought and built this computer about 5 years ago and i've never updated
the bios (this computer has always been running just fine). I also have
another computer available with an A7V333 motherboard and an Athlon XP
2400+ processor (this computer doesn't run so well and seems to crash
randomly even when not being used).

I'd like to know if i can simply place the Athlon XP processor into the
K7S5A motherboard (replacing the AMD Duron) or would I need to update
the bios and make some changes? I would like to do this so that i can
take advantage of the significantly larger L2 cache on the Athlon
processor (4 times larger than the Duron) and hopefully obtain a slight
improvement in performance.

I would also like to know if it's possible to damage anything on the
K7S5A motherboard by trying this processor swap......or will the worst
case scenario be that the computer simply won't boot up or be unstable
with the Athlon XP? and if the Athlon XP processor doesn't work out in
the K7S5A motherboard can I simply put the Duron processor back in
without any harm done?

thank you for your time and advice.

patrick

On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 17:18:57 -0700, patrickantoun wrote:

> I'd like to know if i can simply place the Athlon XP processor into the
> K7S5A motherboard (replacing the AMD Duron) or would I need to update
> the bios and make some changes? I would like to do this so that i can
> take advantage of the significantly larger L2 cache on the Athlon
> processor (4 times larger than the Duron) and hopefully obtain a slight
> improvement in performance.
>
You may not NEED to upgrade the bios first, but it would certanly be a
good idea. And the improvement should be a lot more than slight. In fact
it should be about double, CPU wise anyway.

> I would also like to know if it's possible to damage anything on the
> K7S5A motherboard by trying this processor swap......or will the worst
> case scenario be that the computer simply won't boot up or be unstable
> with the Athlon XP? and if the Athlon XP processor doesn't work out in
> the K7S5A motherboard can I simply put the Duron processor back in
> without any harm done?
>
Shouldn't hurt a thing. I've put newer XP's in boards much older than the
K7S5A.

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I beleive the K7S5A runs at 133MHz bus speed.
Does the XP 2400+ use the 133MHz or 166MHz bus speed?

There are some fourms out there that have custom bios (I think one is called
Cheapo bios?)
for the K7S5A and can answer questions.

<> wrote in message
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> hello everyone,
>
> I have a computer with a K7S5A motherboard and an AMD Duron processor
> running at a clock speed of 1.2GHz and 512MB of DDR ram. I originally
> bought and built this computer about 5 years ago and i've never updated
> the bios (this computer has always been running just fine). I also have
> another computer available with an A7V333 motherboard and an Athlon XP
> 2400+ processor (this computer doesn't run so well and seems to crash
> randomly even when not being used).
>
> I'd like to know if i can simply place the Athlon XP processor into the
> K7S5A motherboard (replacing the AMD Duron) or would I need to update
> the bios and make some changes? I would like to do this so that i can
> take advantage of the significantly larger L2 cache on the Athlon
> processor (4 times larger than the Duron) and hopefully obtain a slight
> improvement in performance.
>
> I would also like to know if it's possible to damage anything on the
> K7S5A motherboard by trying this processor swap......or will the worst
> case scenario be that the computer simply won't boot up or be unstable
> with the Athlon XP? and if the Athlon XP processor doesn't work out in
> the K7S5A motherboard can I simply put the Duron processor back in
> without any harm done?
>
> thank you for your time and advice.
>
> patrick
>

Here are some bios for the K7S5A
http://www.ocworkbench.com/2002/ecs/...cheepobios.htm

<> wrote in message
news: oups.com...
> hello everyone,
>
> I have a computer with a K7S5A motherboard and an AMD Duron processor
> running at a clock speed of 1.2GHz and 512MB of DDR ram. I originally
> bought and built this computer about 5 years ago and i've never updated
> the bios (this computer has always been running just fine). I also have
> another computer available with an A7V333 motherboard and an Athlon XP
> 2400+ processor (this computer doesn't run so well and seems to crash
> randomly even when not being used).
>
> I'd like to know if i can simply place the Athlon XP processor into the
> K7S5A motherboard (replacing the AMD Duron) or would I need to update
> the bios and make some changes? I would like to do this so that i can
> take advantage of the significantly larger L2 cache on the Athlon
> processor (4 times larger than the Duron) and hopefully obtain a slight
> improvement in performance.
>
> I would also like to know if it's possible to damage anything on the
> K7S5A motherboard by trying this processor swap......or will the worst
> case scenario be that the computer simply won't boot up or be unstable
> with the Athlon XP? and if the Athlon XP processor doesn't work out in
> the K7S5A motherboard can I simply put the Duron processor back in
> without any harm done?
>
> thank you for your time and advice.
>
> patrick
>