On Monday 11 September 2006 02:51, Grant wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to set your system's front side bus speed in
> software?  My Dell motherboard and BIOS don't seem to have any
> facility for it, and I've heard there is a utility in Windows that
> will allow you to set it.

Isn't there a jumper or two on the circuit board that you should dis/connect 
according to the MoBo's manual to effect this?  MoBos that don't have either 
a BIOS menu choice or a jumper set up and rely on a software hack perhaps 
mean that they are not meant to run (reliably) at anything other than default 
speeds - on the other hand it may just mean that HP/Dell/etc. were providing 
something cheap & cheerful with my granny in mind and couldn't be bothered to 
fic their buggy BIOS'.  With Gentoo compiling its own software the demands 
placed on a machine are somewhat more onerous than that seen by a typical 
M$Windoze setup.
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Regards,
Mick