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August 31st, 2004 21:00
PE 2300 CPU Upgrade Question
I recently acquired a PE 2300 with Dual CPU capable board. Right now it has a P3 450/512/100 2.0 S1 processor. The Service tag number is UWWLT
I am trying to figure out what’s the highest processors I can upgrade too. I have seen other post about a 1300 and a 2300 motherboard and I can not seem to find this information. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Motherboard Part number 0007891P-12951-92Q-0362
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speedstep
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August 31st, 2004 23:00
The fastest official is 700MHZ pentium3.
Unofficially up to 1.0GHZ/100MHZ FSB slot 1 cpus work just fine in
ether the 440BX or 440GX motherboarD.
Powerleap makes upgrades that also work.
The System BIOS should be updated in either case.
System BIOS, Dell PowerEdge 2300, A15
FileName: PE2300-BIOSA15.exe [513 KB]
Release Date: 4/24/2003
http://support.dell.com/FileLib/Format.aspx?ReleaseID=R58203
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September 1st, 2004 01:00
speedstep
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September 1st, 2004 12:00
I know that it DOES NOT.
The 440BX and 440GX chipset are limited to 100Mhz FSB.
The 133Mhz cpus go into the sockets and will "boot" but will not run at the advertised speed. A 533Mhz Pentium3 will run at 400Mhz. AKA 533/133 = 4.0 667Mhz cpus run at
500Mhz aka 667/133 = 5.0 , 1.0Ghz/133Mhz cpus run at 750 Mhz aka 1000/133 = 7.5
Most of the Newer Pentium3's need the Latest Bios because they are C0 stepping.
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October 23rd, 2004 17:00
speedstep
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October 23rd, 2004 23:00
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October 24th, 2004 18:00
cj8281
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October 24th, 2004 18:00
What is SMP?
I have an old Power Edge 4200 that I would like to give to a friend and I would like to replace it with this 2300 that I just aquired. I purchased it stripped, no ram, no cpu, no harddrives. It did come with a scsi card. The on board adapter was hooked to an external connector and harddrive back plane was connected to the card. The cpu that came out of it was a 500 and has no fan. I checked the number on it and according to some of the other forum posts it is the GX series. I would like to run dual processors in it. What about running some of the flip chip P3s, will I need the socket adapters or will they run ok in a generic slocket? I would like it in the 800 to 1000 speed range. Do you have run registered ram for the 256 and the 512s?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
cj8281
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October 27th, 2004 23:00
Do you have any Idea why the celerons won't work and what SMP is??
Any info you have would be appreciated
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October 28th, 2004 01:00
Powerleap sells an SMP AKA 2 cpu SETUP for the 2300 using slotkets.
Updating the ESM and Bios VIA DOS FLOPPY to the latest versions would be a first step.
However the Kit is like $600.
Any CPU from 333 up to 1000 Mhz slot 1 works fine.
Either board GX or BX.
I find that PentiumII 350 Mhz slot1 cpu's are very inexpensive.
There are no FANS for the cpus because the fan on the rear has a shroud on it to cool the cpus.
2 Long thumb screws hold the shroud on and keep the cpu from falling out.
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/scham/
parrotrpg1
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August 15th, 2012 18:00
Hello, I got one of these PE2300s recently. I updated the Bios to A15 and now it says "CPU Speeds do not match, System Halted!." I've tried jumper settings, I reset the CMOS....never did this before the update.
Any way to fix? I can't even enter BIOS Setup before that message comes up.