KT7A-Raid and XP processor

Cyber13Cyber13 Virginia
edited November 2003 in Hardware
Has anyone here put a XP processor on a KT7A-raid mobo? The reason I am asking is the XP processor is differant on the bottom side. What should I do with the temp sensor ? Just bend it out of the way or let it touch ? Keep in mind that there are little dodads on the bottom side of the processor.

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  • Cyber13Cyber13 Virginia
    edited November 2003
    Bet I bought the wrong processor..............
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited November 2003
    I've read of it being able to support up to a 2100xp with a modded bios
  • HalOfBorgHalOfBorg West Virginia
    edited November 2003
    Paul's

    To quote the "Processor" section:

    KT7A/KT7A-RAID versions 1.0 to 1.2: All Athlon (Thunderbird) processors with both 100MHz and 133MHz FSB. AthlonXP processors are not officially supported due to a minor timing problem that can require you to hit reset during a cold boot. Unofficially, however, few people seem to experience this problem and these processors work fine. One user had to set the CPU Driver value to 1 (instead of 2) to achieve stability with an XP1900+ on a v1.1 motherboard.
  • Cyber13Cyber13 Virginia
    edited November 2003
    I have a 1.3 version motherboard and maybe I misunderstood what I read but I think my motherboard will support a XP2000+ processor. I think I must have bought the wrong one because there are components on the bottom of this chip where the temp. sensor would normally rest against the cpu. I will try to attach a pic, hope its not to big.
  • Cyber13Cyber13 Virginia
    edited November 2003
    maybe this will help.........................
  • rapturerapture
    edited November 2003
    I have an MSI 6330 KT7A board running a 1800 AXP

    They do another version of the same mobo that can run faster CPUs, you should be fine.
  • Cyber13Cyber13 Virginia
    edited November 2003
    Are you saying to bend the temp sensor out of the way or allow it to touch the rough surface pictured?
  • rapturerapture
    edited November 2003
    I dont think it will matter.

    You can bend it down if you dont want it to touch but even if it did I doubt it would brake anything.

    Making it not touch would only mess up the temp monitoring.
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