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John Dean wrote:

Is there a BIOS patch for Celerons? Or, one for ignoring the CPU check?
Is the BIOS in flash memory, and if so what tools would I need to have to
read out a copy of it for modification and reinsertion (assuming I had to
hack it myself)?

Please see previous posts in this newsgroup in PL 3000 BIOS tweaks.

Michael Grigoni
Cybertheque Museum

Thanks... I went to Google Groups and read that thread. There is a
difference in my objective from that other thread. The Celeron PPGA
processor IS a P II; and it runs at 66MHz FSB. The 466 version has a
multiplier of nine. The only difference is in the cache. The P II comes
with 512K on the processor card, external to the CPU chip and running at
half the core speed. The Celeron PPGA has only 256K of cache, but it is
on-chip and runs at full core speed. In every main board I know of, the
Celeron PPGA and the P II run on the same chipset. That is why the
PowerLeap upgrades were possible.

But I gather that there is no prior experience of hacking the BIOS to get
around the POST CPU check?

Does anyone have any info on what are the minimum tools needed to read out
the BIOS and disassemble it? Is the BIOS in flash memory so it would be
easy to reload after modification?

Thanks

John Dean