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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
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- Subject: Re: Changing the bus speed?
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- Date: 31 Jul 92 16:38:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul24.163026.21519@qiclab.scn.rain.com| 70465.203@compuserve.com writes:
- |rcg1597@zeus.tamu.edu (GUYNN, RICHARD CARL) writes:
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- || 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?
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- |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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- Increasing Bus speed isn't necessarily the same as increasing
- clock speed. The regular speed for the ISA bus is 8 MHz, but
- some motherboards will let you speed this up to 12 MHz or so.
- Its usually done through the CMOS setup I think....
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