Not all board/bios combinations will work with newer, faster chips.
Many 440GX and BX chipset boards are OK with 600 MHz and faster PIII's ONLY if
the bios is upgraded to newest version prior to putting the faster chips on the
board; otherwise post fails and the system is completely dead. Be careful
here, putting a pair of 800 PIII's on "any" dual PIII board could get you into a
lot of trouble.
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > Is thery any motherboard where I can put 2xPIII 800MHz and it
> > works with Linux? Which one? Any urls? Info?
>
> basically, all motherboards work with Linux; some peripherals on some
> boards might not work fully (obscure sound chips, etc). some exotic
> boards with multiple PCIs, etc might give trouble with old kernels (2.2).
>
> further, there's nothing special about PIII/800's: they look the same as
> other PIII's (of the same FSB) to the motherboard. or are you
> worried about supplying enough current?
>
> any board-geek site, like www.anandtech.com will have links to vendor sites.
>
> regards, mark hahn.
>
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