i have not heard of getting those Celerons working in proliant servers.

If you really need the upgrade, look for an old PL1600. It has a 100Mhz bus,
and should support upto 550mhz PIII processors. Those things have to be just
about free on eBay now ... or, get the guts from a 1600 and put it in the
2500 case? the are basicall the same.

- LC

"John Dean" wrote in message
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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

Sorry.... arithmetic error. Should not do it in my head when tired. The
multiplier is seven, not nine. The fastest Celeron PPGA they made was, I
believe, a 533 which is eight X 66 (probably... did it in my head again).

Also the Celeron is the same as the P II series that ran at 100MHz FSB...
350, 400, 450,....600; not the original 66MHz P IIs that were in the
series 233, 266, (300?), 333. But I think that was a process change, not
a design change. The core voltage went down a bit. But the MSI 6905s
have their own VRM onboard and they drop the voltage to the right value.

John Dean