Can a KT133 mobo handle a Athlon XP?

[Armageddon415]

I have a Asus A7Pro (kt133), will it work with the XP's? I know that I wont get anywhere near the preformance of a KT333 board since the FSB will be limited and I'll be using pc133 RAM. But I just want to test out a CPU to make sure it works.

 

[Buz2b]

Good old ASUS site BIOS download page is not working again but from the looks of things I'd say NO. There was no mention anywhere that I went to that said it would support the XP. If you are looking to do this I hope I'm wrong but that is the best I could find. If you can get to the BIOS download page it might offer some insight.

 

[WetWilly]

The official Asus line is "no" because the KT133 chipset doesn't support a 133MHz FSB.

You might be able to run the XP at a 100MHz FSB though, depending on your board revision and BIOS. According to this table, the A7Pro with a PCB revision of 1.05. (note the trailing dot after the "5" - it's significant) and BIOS version of 1.008 or higher supports the Duron/Morgan (which is a smaller cached version of the XP). I vaguely remember reading somewhere that somebody got the A7V running with an Athlon XP and the 1.008 BIOS on a lower revision board than Asus recommended. YMMV.

Good luck.