will athlonXP work on asus a7m socket A board?

[imported_marky339]

Hello,

Will any Socket A proc work on an older motherboard? My friend gave me his old asus a7m, and when i checked on the specs, it says it can handle a duron/athlon proc. Does this include AthlonXP?

 

[assemblage]

I would go to the Asus site and look it up. Chances are you'll have to flash the bios, but it should say on the site what the board supports. I don't think all Socket A boards support Althon XP's. I fixed a computer that an Athlon at 1.3ghz and it's board would only go that high.

 

[imported_marky339]

so when asus.com says it supports athlon does not mean it supports athlonXP?

 

[Concillian]

a7m what?

I remember an A7M266, and that is listed on the ASUS website, but there is no plain A7m, nor do I remember one.

Go here:
http://www.asus.com/support/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx

Choose "by motherboard"
and put in your motherboard model. You will see which processors it supports. Primarily support is determined by what FSB the chipset could do, some chipsets only do 100 MHz FSB, and those will not take an AthlonXP (actually they might, but they'd run much slower). Obviously one that runs 133 MHz would only take 133MHz AthlonXPs.

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Originally posted by: marky339
Will any Socket A proc work on an older motherboard? My friend gave me his old asus a7m, and when i checked on the specs, it says it can handle a duron/athlon proc. Does this include AthlonXP?

Most of the time when you look up the specifications of a given model motherboard, they tell you WHICH specific cpu's they support, by name, not merely by series. I looked up a three year old Gigabyte MB and they had a chart there for which Revision of the MB, and which core and fsb speed of the cpu. (You do need more model number for the motherboard than the abbreviated part of the name that you used.)

The Rev 1.0 of my Gigabyte MB supposedly wouldn't run a newer AMD XP than a "Palomino" core 2100+ at 266 fsb speed. But the chart showed that Rev. 2.1 would accept a "Thoroughbred" 2600+ (and what I ignored was that it would do so, but still at 266 MHz fsb, effectively running the 2600 at a 2100's internal speed). I'd have been better off with a 2500+ than with that particular (333 MHz) 2600.






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