T-bred not supported by my Mo-board? What gives?

[monkelyoy]

I have a Soltek 75DRV-2 motherboard with a KT 266A Via chip, which the Soltek site says does not support the new T-bred 2100+ I have ordered. However, the 75DRV-4, with the same "northbridge" chip does support it. Has anyone tried this CPU in "unsupported" mainboards? what could happen if I tried my new CPU out anyway?

 

[drewski]

worst case = no post/boot = you need a new motherboard.

that's what happened when i tried my 2100+ in my A7V133 rev 1.04

when my new board came, the cpu worked like a charm.

 

[chizow]

Originally posted by: monkelyoy
I have a Soltek 75DRV-2 motherboard with a KT 266A Via chip, which the Soltek site says does not support the new T-bred 2100+ I have ordered. However, the 75DRV-4, with the same "northbridge" chip does support it. Has anyone tried this CPU in "unsupported" mainboards? what could happen if I tried my new CPU out anyway?

Worst case scenario is it doesn't boot. Update to the latest BIOS and give it a shot. If it works, the worst case would be that it says "unknown" instead of XP2100+ and reports the actual clockspeed of 1.73GHz.

Chiz

 

[KF]

My 1700+ Tbred B works in my old ABIT KT7 mobo, which does not support XP Athlons. It is an "unknown CPU at 2000 MHz". One confusing thing is that the multipliers do not work as expected. You have to figure all that out.

Do a search on members johncar and Soulkeeper.

A 2100+ has a different multiplier (13). 13 is the lowest "high" multiplier. The mystery to me is that there are TBBs with 13x multipliers, but if I set my multiplier to what should be 13, it won't boot.