[TriLUG] bad experience w/ tigerdirect.com

[Mike Johnson]

Magnus Hedemark [chrish at trilug.org] wrote:
 
> So I get the thing "home", open the box and start to marry the CPU to the 
> moboard.  The cheap moboard doesn't support any processor so new as the 
> 1.8GHz Duron, which I figured was sort of a bottom end processor.  It 
> requires a 13.5 multiplier with 133MHz core clock speed.  The motherboard 
> only goes to 12.5 multiplier.  Needless to say, it's going back.

Not that you shouldn't take it back, but you might could 'fix' the
motherboard.  Go ahead and install the CPU and boot it up.  It'll just
run slower.  Then, grab and install the BIOS update from:
http://www.chaintechusa.com/tw/eng/product_spec.asp?MPSNo=13&PISNo=53

Like I said, feel free to take it back, but you can likely get it
working, if you really want to.

Mike
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