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Worked perfectly! But it's not totally the BIOS...

I bought a ppga/ppga2 Upgradeware 370GU adaptor (www.upgradeware.com) from
Stratton Computer thus enabling me to use a 1.2G P3 Tualatin. The adaptor
goes for about $34 - it's better than Powerleap because theirs is limited to
supporting only one particular 815 chipset- and they themselves do not
recommend their socket adaptor for this board (they do have another that is
much more expensive)... Upgradeware's does a better job of setting the
voltage to 1.5 volts..(see write up in Tom's Hardware). The BIOS issue comes
into play because it seems that P11 limits the CPU you can use back to
1.0G.. if it sees 1.2, it will display a warning during post and shut down.
By going back to P10, it worked! It saw a 1.2 P3 - as did SANDRA and
Belarc.. to date that PC works great... total layout was about $140- the 1.2
P3 I bought was an open box from Googlegear for $95 +s/h. I did this on both
my D815EEA and my Compaq... for me it was easy versus a whole new mobo and
all that...

"Michael Gallagher" <freezeboy1@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:tfSdnfbd8fFAxL6jXTWcpg@comcast.com...
> Watch out with this BIOS update.  How do you plan on getting this to work?
> The 815EEA supported procs list
> (http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/D815EEA/ea_proc.htm)
only
> goes up to 1.0 GHz.  Did they mess up with the rev 10 release and unlock
up
> to 1.2 GHz?
>
> I tried the same thing with an EEA board and it didn't work.  I have an
EEA2
> board with an updated BIOS, but it doesn't work either because it's not
the
> proper revision code (you can check this via a label on the board or use
> SiSoft Sandra).  The problem is that the protocol and pin layout was
changed
> between Coppermine and Tualatin processors.  I don't think falling back a
> BIOS rev is going to help.  If it does, let me know.
>
> All is not lost (especially if you already own the proc like I do).  I
found
> the article below and have ordered one of these socket converters.
>
> http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20020924/index.html
>
> "Vin Rin" <REMOVEvinrin57@optonline.net> wrote in message
> news:4IZL9.70624$a8.62207@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net...
> > Thanks Steven.. worked perfectly--- again thanks!   Lemme back up to
where
> > my confusion was.... I have a mix of PC's here.... When doing BIOS
upgrade
> > on the 2 Dells, Dell has 2 programs- one that creates the boot/bios disk
> > exactly as the one you linked me to, the other is just the BIOS file
where
> > you'd need to create a boot disk and add the file to it......
> >
> > I assumed the 2 at Intel's where the same... I now understand the 2
Intel
> > offers are: one that works thru Windows and the other creates the DOS
boot
> > disks w/bios.
> >
> > All worked perfectly - and I'm now at P10... again, thank you!
> >
> > "steven67@" <steven67@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> > news:3DFFAF09.284DF68@mindspring.com...
> > > Vin Rin wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thank you! This type concerns me a little in that I am not sure how
to
> > flash
> > > > using this type of file..as in from DOS... where the other type of
> > download
> > > > (such as two P11's currently posted at Intel's site)- one can use
the
> > > > Windows version (simple - as for me!) or the DOS version, such as
the
> > one
> > > > you posted...
> > > >
> > > > Can you explain the steps real quickly how to make a DOS disk- (boot
> up
> > I
> > > > assume) - windows has made me rusty!...thanks!
> > > >
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > The EA-P10.EXE file is a self-expanding zip file.  Copy this file to a
> new
> > > folder.  Change to that new folder, run EA-P10.EXE, and five files
will
> be
> > > extracted into that folder.  The README.TXT file contains
instructions.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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