Question ABout AMD XP 1800+ (Palomino)

[nheather]

I have just given a friend a spare AMD XP 1800+ (Palaomino) so that he can upgrade his Shuttle PC.

I've just noticed that I have unlocked the multiplier (using the silver paint trick).

This was fine in my MoBo which had an overclocking facility allowing you to select the multiplier.

But his MoBo doesn't allow the multiplier to be selected. I have dim and distant memories that on my original system with everything as default the CPU was auto-detected as something lower than a XP1800 and that I had to manually set the multi to 11.5 to get it running as stock.

Can anyone confirm whether my memory is correct?

I guess if it is, my friend's best approach would be to scrape off the silver paint.

Any advice?

Cheers,

Nigel

 

[El Jimben]

Didn't some really old boards require you to set things like the FSB and multiplier manually via jumpers on the board? Maybe your friend's board fits into this scenario?

 

[manveruppd]

But his MoBo doesn't allow the multiplier to be selected. I have dim and distant memories that on my original system with everything as default the CPU was auto-detected as something lower than a XP1800 and that I had to manually set the multi to 11.5 to get it running as stock.

Or it could be that your motherboard needed a BIOS upgrade before it would recognise it as an 1800+, and all you did was bypass it by setting the multi manually. Or it could be that it was recognising it properly, but your RAM was too slow, so at the default multi your CPU was running below stock and you needed to up it to get it running at what it should be.
Either way, if your friend's mobo doesn't recognise it as an 1800+ then I doubt a paint-scrape would fix it: you're better off looking for a BIOS update first.