Phew, that was hair raising stuff. I flashed my KG7 BIOS which went surprisingly smoothly. I then dismantled the old girl and took the T-bird 1400 out and stuck the 1800+ in with a paper thin layer of AS III. Took my computer back upstairs, booted up and it loaded into the BIOS but didnt seem to recognize it as an XP chip. I exited the BIOS after changing the options to the right ones and rebooted... dunk it wouldnt post. AAARRGGHH! I then realized I hadnt cleared the CMOS using the jumper and after I did that it loaded nicely into the BIOS showing the correct CPU name and parameters @ 1.5v.
So far so good, and I havent encountered any errors yet, but my CPU load seems to be 100% at all times in Windows Task Manager, which doesnt seem right by any means. Anyone got any info on how to solve this, I just want to get her running smoothly! Temps seem to be idling around 42 degrees C, my case cooling is virtually non-existant, lol.
God at least im gonna upgrade to Nforce2 soon then the sparks will really start to fly, the KG7 BIOS only goes up to 2200+ speeds and the PCI/AGP divider isnt locked so I cant do much in the way of overclocking.
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EDIT - My rig seems to be stable at 13*150 (1875Mhz) which isnt bad for the old KG7, and benchmarks seem to be 1/5 - 1/4 up on what they were with it running at 1800+ speeds. This chip just feels like it has soooo much more left in it though.:beer:
So far so good, and I havent encountered any errors yet, but my CPU load seems to be 100% at all times in Windows Task Manager, which doesnt seem right by any means. Anyone got any info on how to solve this, I just want to get her running smoothly! Temps seem to be idling around 42 degrees C, my case cooling is virtually non-existant, lol.
God at least im gonna upgrade to Nforce2 soon then the sparks will really start to fly, the KG7 BIOS only goes up to 2200+ speeds and the PCI/AGP divider isnt locked so I cant do much in the way of overclocking.
:beer: EDIT - My rig seems to be stable at 13*150 (1875Mhz) which isnt bad for the old KG7, and benchmarks seem to be 1/5 - 1/4 up on what they were with it running at 1800+ speeds. This chip just feels like it has soooo much more left in it though.
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