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I'm insane: is hard modding an XP's multiplier possible?

Jeff7

Jeff7

Lifer
I can't seem to get to 166MHz FSB, and I suspect that it's because of an older problem. The default multiplier is 10x; when the system boots, it sets the FSB to 166, which makes the processor try to boot at 1.6GHz. This is an XP 1500; 1.6GHz would be something like...1800~1900 maybe? Since it can't boot at that speed, it never initializes the reduced multiplier setting in BIOS. Hard modding the processor would get around this problem. This has worked a few times for me with T-bird processors, but I have no idea if it would work on an XP processor.

Motherboard is a Shuttle AK35GTR, processor is XP 1500.
 
I don't get it... are you _trying_ to run at 166FSB, meaning you need a lower multiplier, or you just want it to work and it's stuck at 166FSB? If the former, then you need to bridge the L1. The latter, you can hold down the INSERT key, then turn the machine on. On my AK31A (not same, but similar enough) it gets the CPU to defaults.
 
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