linuxbios can't identify celeron 850MHz

zhu shi song zhushisongzhu at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 5 01:25:01 CET 2002


I got setclock from old mailing lists. Can you give
more comments on the program?  If I'll use it to boot
850Mhz celeron, what should i do ? 
   zhu

--- ollie lho <ollie at sis.com.tw> wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 02:28, Ronald G. Minnich
> wrote:
> > On 4 Nov 2002, James Alton wrote:
> > 
> > > It seems that your 850mhz celeron chip should be
> running at a 100Mhz bus
> > > (8.5x clock multiplier. 8.5*100mhz = 850Mhz)
> instead, you are feeding it
> > > 66Mhz. (8.5*66 = 560Mhz) You can fix this by
> talking to your clock chip
> > > and telling it to change the clock speed. (Which
> involves finding your
> > > clock chip on the motherboard, looking up to see
> if there's already code
> > > for it, or if you have to hack out code yourself
> using spec sheets. lots
> > > of fun.)
> > 
> > when you figure it out, send me a howto :-)
> 
> Ron,
> 	The old setclock utility can be used to set FSB
> clock for SiS 630 MBs. I was trying to put the code
> in
> LinuxBIOS but I can not find a way to safely
> reconfigure
> clock gen when DRAM is up which means I have to put
> it
> in the IPL.
> 
> Ollie
> 
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