In Wes we trust :-)

Hi Guys,

I recently posted some questions about upgrading my Abit KT7 (not A)
revision 1.0 with an Athlon XP. Wes Newell says it should be no problem.
Yeah, he can say that, but I had to spend the money.

Okay, so I thought I should give it a try. I ordered an XP 2400+ tbred for
only 70 Euro (about 75 USD), and yesterday was the moment.

Took my Duron 900 out, threw my new XP 2400 in and power on....


BEEP! (phew! at least it beeps)

"unkown cpu at 2000 MHz" !!!! WOW !!!!

Windows loaded fine, no problem at all!

NO MODS, NO BIOS CHANGES, NO TWEAKING WHATSOEVER!


Rebooted, into the bios and set the multiplier to 7,5.


"unkown cpu at 2200 MHz" !!!! This is FUN!

It now runs stable for about 12H already doing seti@home WU's in 3 to 3.5
hours!


What a fine upgrade for such a few bucks.


Thanks Wes, for your fine information and your encouraging words. I'm very
happy now :-)


Only one question left: I heard something about reinstalling Windows for SSE
support after this upgrade. Is that true?

Grz,


Mike.

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:29:59 +0200, Ebzdex wrote:

> Only one question left: I heard something about reinstalling Windows for SSE
> support after this upgrade. Is that true?
>
Can't answer that one for sure, I run Linux 99.99% of the time. But unless
you're running an old windows version I would think SSE support was built
in.

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Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.html

"Wes Newell" <> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:29:59 +0200, Ebzdex wrote:
>
> > Only one question left: I heard something about reinstalling Windows for
SSE
> > support after this upgrade. Is that true?
> >
> Can't answer that one for sure, I run Linux 99.99% of the time. But unless
> you're running an old windows version I would think SSE support was built
> in.

If you check the different NT kernels that comes with the XP/2000
installation, there is no special one for SSE. There are special ones for
ACPI, Uniprocessor, Multiprocessor etc but not for SSE.

Anyway, it's up to the apps to use SSE(/MMX/3DNow etc), and not the kernel
afaik.

Which means you don't have to reinstall.

/M

In article <bgagmm$j1$>, says...

> Only one question left: I heard something about reinstalling Windows for SSE
> support after this upgrade. Is that true?

Run windows update. I know there has been two CPU driver updates for the
newer CPU's in WinXP over the past year. I'm not sure what they address,
or if there are updates for other versions of Windows, but I would think
there is.

Doug