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Old January 19th 04, 11:44 PM
Simon
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Default Athlon XP on old board is 'unknown CPU type' is this gonna be a problem?

Hi,

I'm currently running an Athlon xp 2400+ on an Abit KT7A (@ 2.26GHz)
I know the board doesn't officialy support the cpu but it's been running for
a few months and seems stable and quick. However the bios and windows don't
reconise the CPU with the 'unknown CPU type' message appearing. Will this
cause any problems?
For example do programs look to this infomation to see if SSE or other
instruction sets are available? Or is this done a totally different way?

Cheers,
Simon

PS- running an XP on an old kt133 board seems a cheap way to get some extra
life out of it!