old gateway GP6-300 Can it run with a p2-450? help

[bjy20716]

I reinstalled windows on an old gateway PG6-300 for a neighbor.
It is a p2-300. I happened to have a p2-450 laying around so I
stuck it in to see if it would work. It booted at 300mhz tho.
I looked in the bios and the motherboard to try to set the speed
for 450mhz but could not find anything. Searching on google
I cannot find much info. Is there anyway I can get this 300 to run
with my 450 chip? Or these are locked to the original CPU speed?
Thank You

 

[Tea Bag]

You're pretty much locked down to that speed, especially on Gateways and Dells.. Their BIOS settings do no allow for any custom fre/mult settings, so you're stuck at the speed it was shipped.

 

[redbeard1]

If there is a chance for it to work, you would need to find jumpers on the motherboard for 100MHZ and 4.5 multiplier. If the chipset is Intel 440LX then it won't work at all, since it is limited to 66MHZ bus, which the 300 is. If it is a 440BX chipset, which can do 100MHZ, you also need bios support, which they might have left out.

 

[wetcat007]

Yeah prolly locked, that thing is old, tell em to go get an emachines package for 350 bucks lol, computers are so cheap now, but some people refuse to upgrade even something that old.

 

[Arcanedeath]

Thats an LX or BX based motherboard, you would have to look for jumpers or dip switches on the motherboard to set the multiplier / buss speed and make sure he's got PC100 and not PC66 ram for everthing to work correctly @ 450.