BIOS Updates forum

Hello I have en engineering sample P-4, unfortunately Abit hasn't included this CPU in their bios and I am therefore unable to select multipliers on this chip, this results in my CPU running slower than it actually is. Could anyone please tell me if it is possible to unlock the multiplier selection ...

Hey I sold the laptop now, in favour of one with a bigger screen. It was a XE3-GC, and it was XP I was running, yeah XP was SUPPOSED to support speedstep natively but it didn't help on my XE3-GC. Now the funny part is I had the EXACT same problem with my newly aquired XE3-GF until I biosupdated it e...

Thanks for the reply, I've been doing some research on my own and it seems that there is support for speedstep... however the menu is 'missing' in the bios. If you reboot say 10 times in a row and enter the bios each time, it'll eventually pop up and you'll be able to enable speedstep, but it seems ...

Hello I've recently upgraded my HP Omnibook XE3L with a Pentium-III mobile CPU. When I boot bios recognizes this CPU as a Pentium-III mobile 900 MHz, but it seems to lack support for speedstep? This makes it run only 700 MHz when checking with CPU-Z etc. no matter the load... I've also tried various...