Petz, you can't underclock a multiplier-locked CPU either (the celery, anyway). If you could, there'd be no trick to running celeries of any speed at 100 mhz FSB at all, you'd just adjust the multiplier down until it worked. You can't do that, though.
There might be some subtle gotcha's, but I bet in a lot of cases the only problem is that the bios maybe won't report the cpu type properly, not a fatal error.
Of course, the bios world is a bit odd. I just had to swap some disks onto an old reliable system, went through several failed attempts where adding the disks lead to failure to boot or random system screwups due to automagical choice of drive ordering and letters, until I figured out the trick of telling the bios to ignore/disable the disks. Then it worked with no problem, and they showed up fine in the OS. As Roseanne Rosana-Dana used to say, it's always something.
Cheers, Dan.
P.S. also had to go CPU shopping, Duron 600's for $81 with extremely limited mobo availability is very frustrating. Maybe AMD should make its own mobos to go with its own chipsets, just so things could get launched in the (sadly obsolete) Intel classic fashion. Those were the days. |
