The BIOS on my mobo (Abit KR7A-RAID) only supports up to Athlon XP 2000+ (no
later BIOS version available) but I want to install an XP 2400+ cpu. Can I
safely install this to run at it's designated speed and should I increase
the FSB or the multiplier to accommodate it?
If you can crank the multiplier up to 15 you OK.........but I understood
that boards bios to have a mulitplier limit of 13 ....
test it and see
peter
"D. SHAW" <d.shaw5077@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> The BIOS on my mobo (Abit KR7A-RAID) only supports up to Athlon XP 2000+
> (no later BIOS version available) but I want to install an XP 2400+ cpu.
> Can I safely install this to run at it's designated speed and should I
> increase the FSB or the multiplier to accommodate it?
>
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:12:36 +0000, D. SHAW wrote:
> The BIOS on my mobo (Abit KR7A-RAID) only supports up to Athlon XP 2000+ (no
> later BIOS version available) but I want to install an XP 2400+ cpu. Can I
> safely install this to run at it's designated speed and should I increase
> the FSB or the multiplier to accommodate it?
Any socket A cpu will run in any socket A MB (assuming neither is
defective). See My server link below for details. If the XP 2400+ you get
is a locked model (date code 0338 or later), it should default to a 15x
multiplier. Just make sure the FSB is set to 133MHz and it should run at
the default 2000MHz. If you get an earlier model that is unlocked, and
your board only supports 4 of the 5 multiplier bits, it shiould default to
2000MHz, but with a setting of 20x100MHz FSB. Forget anything from the
Abit website about support. that just means they don't support it, not
that it won't work. You search google groups and find lots of people
running all models of cpu's in the KR7A model MB's. There are also 2400+
XP-M's that re all unlpocked and need to be treated a little diferently.
Should be lots of sockect A details here.
BIOS doesn't support CPU speed 
Linear Mode
