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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Changing the bus speed?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.163026.21519@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 16:30:26 GMT
- References: <24JUL199209035496@zeus.tamu.edu>
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- rcg1597@zeus.tamu.edu (GUYNN, RICHARD CARL) writes:
-
- > I have seen quite a few people talking about the fact that they
- >have upped the bus speed on their boards. I was just wondering, is
- >this simply done by replacing the oscillator crystal? Or is there
- >something else that must be done with the crystal changeout? Is there
- >an easy way to determine whether the board will support the new speed?
-
- You'll likely have to replace most of the parts on the motherboard.
- They were chosen for the max clock speed it *currently* has. At a
- higher clock rate many of them will have the wrong value.
-
- You want a higher clock rate? Buy a new motherboard. Sorry, but
- that's the way it is.
-
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- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
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