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Problem with upgrading a Pentium 4, from 1.8Ghz to 2.66Ghz

idata
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I was Working on a older computer to add to the network and had some other Pentium 4's laying around. So I looked up the board specs (Intel D845GRG) and it said it can support a 2.66Ghz Pentium with the BIOS at least a BIOS Version of P06 or later.

The problem is that It limits it to 2Ghz and only lets the FSB run at 400Mhz when it need to run at 533Mhz

I have BIOS Version P19 on it now.

Is there any way to unlock it to run at 544Mhz FSB to get 2.66Ghz

----or is the borad locked to 400Mhz FSB---

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HERBERT_H_Intel
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my guess is that this board is clocking down the fsb to match the memory speed of 100 Mhz frequency (200mhz DDR) (400mhz QDR as the FSB works). which would explain it all.

Are you using ddr 200 memory?

OJ

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idata
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Yeah the ram is running at 200Mhz.

Guess I gottah look around for some 266Mhz DDR ram..

Thanks for pointing it out its kind of Obvious now.

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