> Does anyone know of a way to set your system's front side bus speed in
> software? My Dell motherboard and BIOS don't seem to have any
> facility for it, and I've heard there is a utility in Windows that
> will allow you to set it.
Isn't there a jumper or two on the circuit board that you should dis/connect
according to the MoBo's manual to effect this? MoBos that don't have either
a BIOS menu choice or a jumper set up and rely on a software hack perhaps
mean that they are not meant to run (reliably) at anything other than default
speeds - on the other hand it may just mean that HP/Dell/etc. were providing
something cheap & cheerful with my granny in mind and couldn't be bothered to
fic their buggy BIOS'. With Gentoo compiling its own software the demands
placed on a machine are somewhat more onerous than that seen by a typical
M$Windoze setup.
The Dell motherboard detects the CPU's FSB and sets it that way. The
board officially supports 66/100/133. My Celeron 700 runs at 66FSB,
but I'd like to try 100FSB so my memory will run at full speed and I
can see if the CPU can handle 1050 (10.5x multiplier).
Does anyone know of a way to set the FSB in software?
- Grant
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