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  • Perplexing Problem

    On the Acorp 5ALI61 Socket 7 motherboard I have for the P166MMX @ 200 there has come to my attention a little problem.

    On the installation of SiSoft it reports the CPU at 100Mhz.

    I did a bench of the processor and sure enough its at 100.

    Deciding that it might not want to run at 100Mhz I took the FSB down to 83Mhz... (210) and Sisoft reports 104Mhz and it benches at that level.

    Getting really annoyed at this I set everything to default and sure enough when I check the CPU speed... 88Mhz and it benches at that level.

    On boot up it shows the correctly set speed but it seems that somewhere along the way there is a slight error

    I checked the hardware and revisions and have found that my board is a revision D with the B level Southbridge and according to Acorps limited information the newest bios is available but it won't flash through with a nonsupported hardware fault.. oh well... off to more fiddling.
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