[geeks] P2 VRM

Geoff Reed geoffr at zipcon.net
Wed May 15 14:52:59 CDT 2002


At 12:16 PM 5/15/02 -0400, you wrote:

>The machine in question is an old HP Kayak.  I know it uses some sort of
>Intel 440 chipset, but I can't tell from HPs web site which one.  I don't
>know if chipset has anything to do with whether VRMs would be required
>though.  I didn't see any mention on HPs web site about VRMs for Kayaks, but
>I also failed to find which chipset is used.  I didn't even know that varied
>the chipsets for the Kayak XUs until Crucial asked what it was.

HP Kayak machines require VRM's, you will need katmai? compatible VRM's and 
the fastest cpu's that the kayaks take is P-2 333's
I just upgraded a kayak P2-266 for a friend to dual and we had to go chase 
down a compatible VRM.



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