First post, by rick12373
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I wanted to make a Pentium III machine out of my collection of old spare parts. I found a Pentium III 750 MHz and I have an old motherboard that I think had a Pentium II 350 MHz in it to begin with. I have looked all over the motherboard and have not been able to find a model number. I wanted to see if it could run the P3. I looked up the code in the BIOS which is 2A69KL1A and from that it looks like the board has the Intel 440BX/GX/ZX chipset. The machine boots with the P3 in it and it is detected as a P3 750 MHz as soon as it boots on that first screen. When I go in to the BIOS and the CPU Speed Setting it has "300MHz (100x3). I assume this needs to be changed? There are some options here for different speeds and multipliers with the highest being 650MHz (100x6.5) which would be 650MHz. Apart from that there is an option to manually set it. I could manually set it to CPU Ratio x7.5 and CPU Frequency 100 MHZ. Would that be right?
Thanks! 😀
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