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
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