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I was looking very hard at the board to see if
there was any thing perculiar about it and guess what ?!! I found a mysterious jumper -
JP4 under the third DIMM Slot clip. (See the Layout below) I remembered not setting this
jumper before during the review. Thus, I went back to the Manual |
| (Well, I think Elitegroup should improve the
standard of their manual by the way.) There was no documentation about this mysterious JP4
at all. |
Thus, I
immediately contacted Elitegroup. The technical team was efficient in attending to my
resquests and provided answers to my doubts. |
| The undocumented JP4 (right: in red) is a manual switch to bypass the busspeeds locks when using
Intel Pentium II , Celeron 333 Mhz and below. If you have forgotten, this board
automatically limits you to lower FSBs which are lesser than 100 Mhz . That's right with
this switch in jumper, you can unlock the power of 100 Mhz FSB to the above 66Mhz FSB
based CPUs. Later in the test, you will be able to see the advantages of this option. The
settings are as follows : JP4 [ 1 2 3 ]
1-2 Shorted : (Default) 66/68/75/83Mhz
2-3 Shorted : 100/103.112/133Mhz |
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| In addition, they have also
provided me with an updated BIOS Version 2.4eM dated
08/12/1998 to detect the Celerons 300A and 333 Mhz. This new BIOS is
not available worldwide; not even listed in their Website yet. Here's the good part, you
can download it thru us online. If you wish to download it, click here.
Flash your mainboard at your own risk. |
