09-12-2014, 08:49 PM
Hi all,
I've been giving my old desktops the "mobile treatment." On my Athlon 64 system I dropped a mobile chip into the motherboard, grinded down the heatsink retention bracket, and it works like a charm with help from CPUMSR. I tried the same thing on my Pentium 4 Asus P4G533-LA board and...well, it didn't go as well. The computer boots up and everything but I'm stuck at a lame 12x multiplier (for a speed of 1.2 GHz), worse than any Pentium 4 ever shipped. CPUMSR lists the maximum multiplier of 20x (the speed I want) but doesn't allow me to make any adjustments.
What I want to know is, can the BIOS be modded to force the mobile 2 GHz P4 to actually run at 2 GHz? If it can, can I step up to a 2.6 GHz mobile later? I bought the 2 GHz chip for $2.53 as an experiment, so it's no big deal if I can't get it to go faster.
I'm currently running version 3.17 (the latest) of the BIOS from HP's website; the board is an OEM board made by Asus for Compaq before HP bought them out. Here's the link:
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software2/...p24024.exe
Any additional options in the BIOS that can be unlocked are icing on the cake
Thanks!
Voltoid
I've been giving my old desktops the "mobile treatment." On my Athlon 64 system I dropped a mobile chip into the motherboard, grinded down the heatsink retention bracket, and it works like a charm with help from CPUMSR. I tried the same thing on my Pentium 4 Asus P4G533-LA board and...well, it didn't go as well. The computer boots up and everything but I'm stuck at a lame 12x multiplier (for a speed of 1.2 GHz), worse than any Pentium 4 ever shipped. CPUMSR lists the maximum multiplier of 20x (the speed I want) but doesn't allow me to make any adjustments.
What I want to know is, can the BIOS be modded to force the mobile 2 GHz P4 to actually run at 2 GHz? If it can, can I step up to a 2.6 GHz mobile later? I bought the 2 GHz chip for $2.53 as an experiment, so it's no big deal if I can't get it to go faster.
I'm currently running version 3.17 (the latest) of the BIOS from HP's website; the board is an OEM board made by Asus for Compaq before HP bought them out. Here's the link:
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software2/...p24024.exe
Any additional options in the BIOS that can be unlocked are icing on the cake
Thanks!
Voltoid