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cj_y

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I try to help out and upgrade my neighbor's ancient and crappy socket A computer (old couple on social security). I brought a Barton 2500+ from ebay, turned out it's a low voltage, and the mobo think it's a 1100Mhz CPU.
Does anybody have a regular Barton they don't mind trade for my low voltage one? Or you have one super less-expensive? It has to be 333 FSB.
Please PM. Thanks for the help.
 
I may have a 2100+ and a 2500+ at home... I'll update this post when I get there and check it.
 
cj_y said:
I try to help out and upgrade my neighbor's ancient and crappy socket A computer (old couple on social security). I brought a Barton 2500+ from ebay, turned out it's a low voltage, and the mobo think it's a 1100Mhz CPU.
Does anybody have a regular Barton they don't mind trade for my low voltage one? Or you have one super less-expensive? It has to be 333 FSB.
Please PM. Thanks for the help.
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i'm confused, if it's a barton 2500+ xp-m you can just set it to 266fsb (133*14) in the bios and forget about it. Or you can set it to 333fsb (166 *11). Does bios not give you those options?
 
It's an Emachine. there's no option to change the fsb. The mobo can't identify the cpu, so set at 100 fsb. I even tried the pin mod trying to change the fsb to 333, no good.
 
Have a bunch of them... have to look when I get home but I have something you could use I'm sure.
 
may possibly be interested in a purchase if you find another chip. I know the 8RDA series i have supports these chips.

Could you provide the info off the sticker on the chip itself? also what would you be asking for such an item?
 
You can pin-mod it to get your desired FSB and multi. Just google athlon pin mod, it's easy.
 
freezepc said:
You can pin-mod it to get your desired FSB and multi. Just google athlon pin mod, it's easy.
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cj_y said:
It's an Emachine. there's no option to change the fsb. The mobo can't identify the cpu, so set at 100 fsb. I even tried the pin mod trying to change the fsb to 333, no good.
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about that...

it's entirely possible that the motherboard/BIOS of that emachines board will not properly support the FSB/VID. He states he has tried. It is possible however the mod was not done correctly.

This is exactly why i generally do not mess with "big box" machines except to completely swap the guts. they're too picky.
 
Don't mean to tread cr@p or anything...

Have you though about it the other way around?
Upgrade the board to something that supports it... Should be about to find an old socketA for about as much as you'd pay for a cpu.

Those XP-M's were great. Had two running at 2.4Ghz in a dual socket A MSI with pin modding.

Probalby one of the first couple 1000 [H] people to hit the 4GB memory wall in winXP.
 
Some of those older socket A boards had slider switches on the motherboard to change the fsb/multiplier and whatnot. Just a thought.

Bump for your search.
 
The crappy Emachine only has a jumper, 1+2 for 133/166 FSB, 2+3 for 100 FSB. I tried both ways, the PC reported unknown 1100MHz CPU for both. I tried pin-mod, and it will not change.
Thanks all for the input. Please PM if you can offer a regular 333 FSB Barton. I can't swap out the mobo, nor change the FSB manually.
 
Right now it has a 1900+ running, so I'll be looking for 2500+ or better. Thanks for the offer though.
 
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