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In article <1992Jul24.163026.21519@qiclab.scn.rain.com| 70465.203@compuserve.com writes:
|rcg1597@zeus.tamu.edu (GUYNN, RICHARD CARL) writes:
|
||	I have seen quite a few people talking about the fact that they
||have upped the bus speed on their boards.  I was just wondering, is
||this simply done by replacing the oscillator crystal?  Or is there
||something else that must be done with the crystal changeout?  Is there
||an easy way to determine whether the board will support the new speed?
|
|You'll likely have to replace most of the parts on the motherboard. 
|They were chosen for the max clock speed it *currently* has. At a
|higher clock rate many of them will have the wrong value.
|
|You want a higher clock rate? Buy a new motherboard. Sorry, but
|that's the way it is.

Increasing Bus speed isn't necessarily the same as increasing 
clock speed. The regular speed for the ISA bus is 8 MHz, but 
some motherboards will let you speed this up to 12 MHz or so. 
Its usually done through the CMOS setup I think....




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