🚀 go-pugleaf

abit wrote:
> 
> >vladd@best.com wrote:
> >>
> >> Yea, but what happens when you set the MB for a clock speed the chip
> >> can't handle and it freezes on bootup.  How are you then supposed to
> >> change the jumpers to back off the bus speed so it will boot up?
> >>
> >Like you reset the BIOS nowadays, placing/removing a "jumper" =)
> >O, gosh, it's a jumperless kinda mobo!
> >No, just kidding; a keyboard combination for instance ...
> >(<CTRL>+<ALT>+<SHIFT>+<whatever>)
> >Cheers,
> >       Raf.
> 
> for example, If you set the external clock to 200mhz but you just installed
> a Intel Pentium 100 CPU. You will get a booting failure and even no any
> display.
> 
> The BIOS always detect the power on status and make a record in CMOS
> register. The BIOS will set the CPU type to the default value when the BIOS
> detect an unsuccessful power on.
> 
> product marketing
> 
> ABIT computer Corp.

Is is just me, or does this sound like an excellent way to
fry someone's CPU as part of a destructive virus program?
Just bump up the CPU clock one notch at a time, until
-whoosh- your CPU goes up in flames.  Not that I would do
something like this.  I don't even know if it's possible
to access the BIOS settings while the system is running.

Just a thought...

-- 
Dan