Swapping out CPU, sweating bullets

[erik]

I could not believe how hard it was to take out a socket 370 chip and then install a slot 1. The clip was very hard to get off. Then finally I get the PIII in and the manual says, "now locate jumper 20 and short out pins 2 and 3", sure. Wouldn't you know the jumper is flush with the top of the PIII cartridge? So now I take out the cartridge, can barely grab the jumper clip and of course drop it. Well, finally it's all working. I'm a bit miffed that the bios shows it can handle a 800mhz processor when the manual says 550. So I have a 550 and I can really see the speed difference. Oh also, I must have put my fingers on the cpu about 5 times. Wonder if that's good?

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-johnson

[Tom Diemer]

Erik, you might check the web to see if there is a bios flash update for your mainboard.

It sounds like it's reporting the 800mhz chip as a 550E, right?

Guessing here, but one of my computers has an Aopen AX6B mainboard, and it reported anything above 500mhz as a 550E until I updated the flash bios. Once I did that, the 800 chip reported correctly.

It could be your manual was written previous to the faster chips being created - would explain why the manual and bios ratings differ. And all the more reason to see if a bios update is available.

[erik]

Thanks, but just the opposite. I bought a 550 because the manual said up 550. The bios will run up to 800. I could have just bought a 800mhz PIII. You can't see that information until the cpu is installed because my previous cpu was in a different socket.