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changing the FSB on Linux box

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vasah20

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Aug 20, 2001
Hi -
i have a BCM GT133KT (bcmcom.com), and I want to change the FSB from 200 to 266, since my Athlon has a 266 fsb.

I've tried going into the BIOS to change it, but the appropriate settings were not there. The chipset the board uses is the VIA KZ133, and I saw some of the articles on the web on how to change this FSB settings using some a windows based program.

Is there any way that I can change the PCI Frequency using a Linux (Mandrake 8.0) based program, or any other alternative without resorting to windows?

If you can't tell, I'm an absolute newbie to overclocking...

some sys specs:
Mobo: BCM GT133KT (VIA KZ 133 chipset, 200 fsb, 2 MB flash award bios)
CPU: Athlon 1Ghz/266 FSB
RAM: 256 MB 133MhZ memory x 2


TIA
leo
 
Looks like that board (according to the manufacturer's website) only supports up to 200MHz FSB so you're stuck.

Unless they have a BIOS update that opens it up to 266MHz there is no way to accomplish that. You're limited by hardware.
 
ouch...
ok thanks for your reply... i know that award has bios updates that are out... i'll look into them
 
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