FSB Question

HotrodsunHotrodsun Salem, OR
edited August 2004 in Hardware
I have an old motherboard the only supports 200fsb processors. I have a 1400 mhz T-Bird that runs 266fsb, It fully multiplier unlocked, is their a way to force it to auto detect as a 200fsb 1400mhz T-bird? It only comes up now as a 1050mhz. Thanks, Adam

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  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    is it a 1400+ or a 1.4 ( was there a 1400+ ? )

    I had a 400 FSB barton and i threw it in a 333 fsb board and it picked it up wrong but i adjhusted it in the bios and it worked fine
  • HotrodsunHotrodsun Salem, OR
    edited August 2004
    It is a 1400mhz thunder bird not an xp. I just didn't know if there was an "L" bridge of some sort that had be modified. I couldn't really find anything on google.
  • MeunoukMeunouk Wales, UK
    edited August 2004
    What motherboard is it?

    It probably does support 266, it just isnt on the packaging.
  • HotrodsunHotrodsun Salem, OR
    edited August 2004
    Gateway p.o.s It won't do 266fsb I have looked, no bios settings, no jumpers, no nothing.
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    Does the bios have multiplier settings?
    If so pencil over the bridges and set the 14x in bios.
    If not you will need to dig out the old bridge instructions and figure whitch bridges to cut and join to make it 100x14 instead of 133x10.5
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited August 2004
    Adam, you are pretty much out of luck there with that old Tbird 1400/266. The Tbird 1400/200 procs had the multi hard coded inside the chip as the 14 multiplier isn't possible with the old 4 bit multi hard coding of the bridges, since they only have 4 bridges instead of 5 like the XP's. You can pencil in a 12.5 multi on the bridges though and gain 150 MHz over it's default 10.5 multiplier setting. The old 1400/200 procs had to both be hard coded internally and locked for those old boards, so they could run at 1400 MHz.

    If there is any fsb adjustments in bios or by jumper you can get it close to regular operating speed by a 110-112 fsb combined with the 12.5 multi, but I kind of doubt that Gateway gives you any fsb speed adjustments. It's probably an old KT133(not KT133A) chipset board, which weren't stable past around 112-118 fsb anyways.

    Anyways, here's a pic of what you have to do to convert that old Tbird to a 12.5 multi:
  • HotrodsunHotrodsun Salem, OR
    edited August 2004
    Thanks, I get to it.
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