Same ol' KT7A Raid question

This great ol' board, a version 1.0 with the next to last Bios in it (don't
remember which that was, but the final update didn't seem to have anything I
would ever need), started life running a Duron 700, grew to an Athlon 1.2G,
and then graduated to a 1900+ Athlon.

My wife's HP Pavilion seems to have died -- I'm suspecting one of the via
chips on the Mobo -- fans still run, HD is fine, there's enough intelligence
on the board to know that when I press the power switch it should wait 4
seconds or so to power off, so I am guessing that the processor, an Athlon
2600+ that apparently uses a 266 MHz bus (really 133, of course), is OK. I
replaced the pavilion with a new store bought machine, but now I sense
opportunity to make the ol' KT7A Raid a bit bouncier with the 2600+
(Tbred?). It will also a good excuse to take the computer down, take it
apart, and remove all the accumulated dust -- the capacitors don't have any
guck on them, haven't swollen, so I suspect that I have the makings of a
machine that will work.

Am I going to have to cut any bridges, dig into the socket and short any
pins together or tell the bios any lies about the multiplier to choose?
Also, should I expect any noticeable improvement in any performance if
indeed the 2600+ actually somehow gets up to that multiplier of 16 or 8 or
whatever it has to be to get from 133/266 up to 2.13 GHz.

I know this question is asked over and over, and I apologize for asking it
again without doing the heavy research. Thanks for any help anybody can
offer.

Wes has a great page here that might help you get some more life from your
stuff.
http://71.252.187.24:8080/kt133.htm
Amir


"exray" <> wrote in message
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> This great ol' board, a version 1.0 with the next to last Bios in it
> (don't remember which that was, but the final update didn't seem to have
> anything I would ever need), started life running a Duron 700, grew to an
> Athlon 1.2G, and then graduated to a 1900+ Athlon.
>
> My wife's HP Pavilion seems to have died -- I'm suspecting one of the via
> chips on the Mobo -- fans still run, HD is fine, there's enough
> intelligence on the board to know that when I press the power switch it
> should wait 4 seconds or so to power off, so I am guessing that the
> processor, an Athlon 2600+ that apparently uses a 266 MHz bus (really 133,
> of course), is OK. I replaced the pavilion with a new store bought
> machine, but now I sense opportunity to make the ol' KT7A Raid a bit
> bouncier with the 2600+ (Tbred?). It will also a good excuse to take the
> computer down, take it apart, and remove all the accumulated dust -- the
> capacitors don't have any guck on them, haven't swollen, so I suspect that
> I have the makings of a machine that will work.
>
> Am I going to have to cut any bridges, dig into the socket and short any
> pins together or tell the bios any lies about the multiplier to choose?
> Also, should I expect any noticeable improvement in any performance if
> indeed the 2600+ actually somehow gets up to that multiplier of 16 or 8 or
> whatever it has to be to get from 133/266 up to 2.13 GHz.
>
> I know this question is asked over and over, and I apologize for asking it
> again without doing the heavy research. Thanks for any help anybody can
> offer.
>

exray wrote:
> This great ol' board, a version 1.0 with the next to last Bios in it (don't
> remember which that was, but the final update didn't seem to have anything I
> would ever need), started life running a Duron 700, grew to an Athlon 1.2G,
> and then graduated to a 1900+ Athlon.
>
> My wife's HP Pavilion seems to have died -- I'm suspecting one of the via
> chips on the Mobo -- fans still run, HD is fine, there's enough intelligence
> on the board to know that when I press the power switch it should wait 4
> seconds or so to power off, so I am guessing that the processor, an Athlon
> 2600+ that apparently uses a 266 MHz bus (really 133, of course), is OK.

Maybe....maybe not. The behavior you describe could be bad board, CPU
or PSU. Faulty RAM or video could also do it, but would probably result
in some system beeps during power-up. I'd put my money on a bad power
supply.

-Dylan C

On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:33:35 -0500, exray wrote:

> Am I going to have to cut any bridges, dig into the socket and short any
> pins together or tell the bios any lies about the multiplier to choose?
> Also, should I expect any noticeable improvement in any performance if
> indeed the 2600+ actually somehow gets up to that multiplier of 16 or 8 or
> whatever it has to be to get from 133/266 up to 2.13 GHz.

If it's an unlocked 2600/266 model, it should default to 2000MHz on
powerup (20x100). If this is the case, set multiplier to 17 and FSB to133,
increase vocre to 1.70v and reboot. Should run easily at 2250MHz.

If it's a locked model 2600/266 it should default to 2133MHz (16x133), or
maybe 1600 until you set the FSB to 133. More info on My server below.
Shouldn't have to touch the CPU if it's one of the above models, but if
it's a 2600/333 model you will likely have to mod it to get the speed you
want. Write down all the info on the cpu label when you pull it out and
include it with any more questions.

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