My board will support a 2600+, just won't accept anything other than sdram. I found a motherboard for the Duron that comes with a 2000+/hsf for 130 bucks. That'll give the Duron a home and I'll have a proc to use. I'm leaning toward a Abit nf7-s for a new board but the memory and video card costs will turn that 100 bucks into much more. This will get my friend running and I can get my 2 166's back and give them to friends for their kids school work. It'll all work out. Skip P.S. I helped a friend with a 2500+ on this same board, 1Gig SDRAM, and XP Pro; it works fine. Just imagine without the memory bottleneck.

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Don't know if this will help or not.... http://www.ocinside.de/go_e.html?/html/workshop/socketa/xp_painting.html

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That is exactly what I did, I connected the L1 bridge with my No.2 Pencil, no luck there. I guess they are just totally locked up for good.

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Probably a dumb question...but you are trying to lower the multiplier, aren't you?

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Nope, I'm trying to increase my multiplier from 13x to 13.5x and beyond. I tried 13.5 after marking L1 bridge, no luck there so I figure if I set to 14x, 14.5x 15x will be totally useless. If I can lower my multiplier and set my FSB up, I would do it but the problem is that my FSB will not go any further than 103Mhz. This is what I really want to do 133 x 11 = 1466Mhz --- Impossible 103Mhz FSB is my max 100 x 13.5 = 1350Mhz ---- locked at 13x 100 x 14 = 1400Mhz ----- locked at 13x 100 x 14.5 = 1450Mhz ---- locked at 13x 100 x 15 = 1500Mhz --- This is my goal here

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hey guys. I didn't read all the posts but u should know this about the duron. 1.3ghz is the limit of durons. U could of bought a 900mhz duron and overcloaked to 1.3ghz but to overclock a 1.3ghz is not possible. Well until the new durons come . Wait for those and buy the lowest frequence of those and then go overclocking crazy on them eh. Thats what they will be for after all. lol. U should read some of the many overclocking durons reviews, they all will tell u the samething. Sry guys. but its bad news until new durons come.

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why is 103 mhz FSB your max? Because of the Duron? I know it's not the limit of your board cuz I have the same one & I'm clocked at 10 x 140 FSB with an Athlon 1.333. All you're doing is increasing the speed of your processor...you'll see very little (if any) "real world" difference by doing that. Have you tried 10 x 133? I realize you only have PC100 RAM, but since it's CL2, it may run at 133

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Like I said, I cannot raise my FSB beyond 103Mhz, my system will crash if I do it. Right now my CPU FSB is at 100x2 (200Mhz) RAM is at 133Mhz. When I overclock to 103Mhz, I lower down my RAM to 103Mhz as well to sychronize with the FSB. The system will boot at 110Mhz, but just that I can't load windows 98. During the middle of the procesor, I see this smart monitor thingy saying error that error stuff like that. I'm very sure the limit for the Duron is 1.5Ghz. I used sisoft sandra 2002 to check out my CPU. It said Morgon 1-1.5Ghz 1.75-1.8v something like that. So I'm very sure that it will run at 1.5Ghz. The Duron is not much different from AMD Athlon, just that Duron have 64k L2 cache vs Athlon with 256k cache. If Athlon have 1.4Ghz processor, why can't Duron? Since duron have less cache and use less power = less heat, why can't I get it upto 1.5Ghz? I'm very sure the Duron only run at 110Mhz FSB max, anything beyond will be unstable. I read few threads that having the same problem too, they have Duron 1.3Ghz. Best one of all is 110Mhz, some are at 107Mhz range and I'm at the unlucky range, 103Mhz. Anyways, Multiplier is locked no matter what I do with it, well I guess I'll just wait till my friend will give up his Athlon XP and give it to me for free. =D

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Also, check your manual...there are different BIOS settings spelled out specifically for the Duron & others for the Athlon. You also may want to try your memory setting on NORMAL instead of OPTIMAL...I think that basically enables or disables the 4-way Bank Interleave

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Make sure the XP is a Palomino...this mobo doesn't support the T-bred...believe me, I found out the hard way...lol

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I do not have any problems with my memory. All my PC100 SDRAM are 7.5ns (143Mhz max @ CL3). They are just like the PC133 RAM except got mark down to PC100. I tried the normal seting, its not the RAM, the Hard Drive, I'm 100% sure its the Duron processor. They just dont accept anything beyond 103Mhz. Ok here is what happen 101Mhz = Pefectly stable 102Mhz = Perfectly stable 103Mhz = Perfectly stable 104Mhz = Bootup fine, but frozen during intensive benchmark 105Mhz = Bootup windows 98, but when I come to desktop screen, frozed there and I can't move mouse or see any icons or start menu. 106Mhz = Same as 105Mhz 107Mhz = I got error during bootup saying smart disk error, vdisk something error like that. I tried to enable/disable smart monitor for hard drive, samething, no luck. 108Mhz = same as 107Mhz 109Mhz = same as 107Mhz 110Mhz = same as 107Mhz 111Mhz = same as 107Mhz 112Mhz = Black Screen 113Mhz and beyond = Black Screen. My CPU voltage is already at 1.8v, 0.5v mroe than standard Duron 1.75v. I can set it to 1.85v same problem, I just can't go beyond 103Mhz.

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Well, I have no experience with a 1.3 Duron, nor have I ever tried a Duron on my Asus board...but I do have a locked 1.2 Duron (Morgan core) clocked at 1344 (12 x 112mhz) on my Chaintech 7AJA2E mobo (KT133E chipset) & it's completely stable. Unfortuantely, that board has no vcore adjustment (autodetect only) & the 100/133 jumper is disabled (pins removed, 1-2 soldered), so that's the best I can do. I've been tempted to desoldered 1-2 & then solder 2-3 to give me a 133 fsb...then I'd have to unlock the Duron & see what I can get out of it. I've read plenty of reviews about running them at 133 with a lower multiplier. The 1.3 Duron seems to be a different animal than all the rest though...a quick googling turns up more questions than answers...

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