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Xylene: PII at higher FSB? I don't know if it's possible, but one thing I'm sure: you won't be happy with it... much easier is it to simply upgrade to a PIII (even if just a 500 or 600), do no mods at all and you'll have more gain in speed than with any PII even with whatever you did to tune it... B...

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Turned out to be a problem related to kernel config and/or realtime patch, what I did was update to 2.6.20, apply realtime patch, reconfigure kernel (I noticed I had the processor type wrong in the old kernel (PII instead of PIII), and from then on it worked flawlessly!

Hi. Thanks to Sharedoc and all other people who have helped to gather this information and experience together. I've just successfully upgraded my Thinkpad 600E with a 750Mhz PIII running at 600 Mhz (didn't want to risk anything by trying hardware mod...). Before swapping the cpu I edited the bios (...