al440lx motherboard

[mac]

I have looked at my motherboard resources and have discovered that I have to enable a jumper and then go into a soft menu to set processor speed.I do not see any jumpers to actually set the speed,so my question is if I go into the soft menu and tell it that its something that its not is it going to work?would like to know before I try it if anyone has done this.Thanks mac

[scotter]

not on that board as far as I know if you try to tell it its got a faster chip than whats in it, it just defalts to the lowest selectable speed chip and runs it as that http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif
if I'm not mistaken ?

[mac]

Thanks scotter so I guess this means that I can not overclock this one or try to trick it into thinking its something else.mac

[Gene C.]

This might help. I have 4 of these boards. 2 gateway,2 regular intel. on the memory side of the board in the far lower left hand corner you will find a "JUMPER" with the letters J8B2 beside it. it is the last of the three set of jumpers there. with the system shut down. take the jumpers off of the 1-2 "normal" setting. and put it on the 2-3 "configurator" setting. restart the machine. it will go into maintenance mode. change the setting if you have them for the chip speed you want to use. shut down and put the cover back over the 1-2 pins. and with luck you are there. hope this is what you want. I haven't messed with this board in awhile. If you need me to I can put one together and maybe help you out more on it. just let me know.****what ever you do. make sure you have the jumper coven on the pins good. either 1-2 or 2-3, if the cover is loose. the board will think there is no cover and it will going to recovery mode. and think you are try to flash the bios. and you might lose the board*** so take you time and watch what you do. not try to sound like a babysitter. I lost a bios this way.

[800XL]

The only thing you can change in the bios is the multiplier setting on this board. If you are trying to overclock a CPU with a locked multiplier, this will get you now where. However, softFSB does work with the AL440LX and I believe can push the bus up to 83Mhz. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Watch the jumper as Gene C mentioned. Removing the jumper altogether puts the board into bios recovery mode and can hose things. That setting can be useful though, as it allows you to get the Intel OEM bios onto it when there is a Dell/NEC/etc version on it currently. There was another thread about this very same idea in the motherboards forum I believe.

[mac]

Thanks all I will try this weekend to change the multiplier or front side bus or what ever I can.mac

[mac]

O.k. This is for information purposes only for all that helped.I tried the jumper into configure mode,changed processor speed.shut down,changed jumper,rebooted with no boot.shut down changed jumper,set back to original,shut down,changed jumper,rebooted with success booting.What this tells me is this board has no way of tricking it and there where no other way of changing bus speed,ect anything else.Hope this helps someone else someday so they will know.mac

[800XL]

http://www.h-oda.com/
Go to "Download" and get SoftFSB. It does have the option for AL440LX support, and should let you adjust the bus speed from within Windows. Be careful with goosing the bus speed though, as that can cause drive corruption.