On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 23:44:03 +0000, Simon wrote:

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?

No.

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?

Well, programs that are properly written would check the flags, and the
SSE flag is there. There are programs that don't check the flags properly,
but it has nothing to do with the MB, just bad programming.

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