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[Help] Piii 1GHz only displays 500MHz

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First post, by Virtual

Posted on 2020-08-12, 21:44

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Greetings.

I've tried to browse for a solution but I didn't come across anything, so I am writing here in hope someone could shed some light on this issue. Any word of advice will be greatly appreciated.

So, here's the CPU:

When I run it on the Award Advance 10B motherboard, it displays the following in the BIOS screen:

On Windows 98:

(btw, why doesn't it display "Pentium 3" under System Properties?)

For reference, here's a screen of the motherboard's manual:

On another motherboard, it displays the CPU correctly in the BIOS:

Reply 1 of 7, by darry

Posted on 2020-08-12, 21:58

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Setting the FSB speed to 133MHz in the BIOS setup menu should solve the issue .

Reply 2 of 7, by LewisRaz

Posted on 2020-08-12, 22:28

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You need to change jumpers on the motherboard or settings in the bios for 133mhz FSB.

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Reply 3 of 7, by darry

Posted on 2020-08-12, 23:02

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For the QDI Advance 10B , the setting is in the BIOS . See page 34 of the manual .

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Reply 4 of 7, by Virtual

Posted on 2020-08-13, 09:56

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Thank you darry and LewisRaz, you both were right.

I needed to set the jumpers to the 1-2 position first, as the 133MHz option wouldn't show on the BIOS settings by default.

Win98SE still doesn't recognize "Intel Pentium 3" under System Properties, showing instead "x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 10", however SiSift Sandra now displays "Intel Celeron III 998MHz", so it's ok I guess.

Reply 5 of 7, by debs3759

Posted on 2020-08-13, 10:55

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If you go into device manager and delete the CPU then reboot, so Windows redetects it, that might detect it correctly as a P3

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Reply 6 of 7, by darry

Posted on 2020-08-13, 12:02

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Is your version of Sisoft Sandra the newest that can run under Windows 98 ? My guess is that its just too old to recognize your CPU .

For CPU ID purposes, I suggest CPU-Z . There is a Windows 9x compatible version .

Reply 7 of 7, by Virtual

Posted on 2020-08-13, 13:51

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Ok, so I went to Device Manager a deleted a two CPU related entries, rebooted, nothing changed. One got reinstalled again after reboot: "CPU driver for AGP VIA Tech 8598" and the other:"Support for CPU" disappeared completely, hopefully it doesn't break anything.

I am running SiSoft Sandra 99, I believe this is the latest version compatible with Win98 (at least that's the only one compatible with it according to oldversion.com) afaik.

Following darry's recommendation, I've installed CPU-Z and voila:

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