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From: Harald Milz <milz@seneca.muc.de>
Subject: Re: powernow-k7: changing of VID is posible, says tom...
Date: Sat,  2 Oct 2004 21:12:05 +0200 (CEST)
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Nebojsa Trpkovic <tnt@professor.ru> wrote:

> Today, I've read on Tom's Hardware that there IS way to change VID on 
> the fly. He says that "AMD keeps the corresponding utility under lock 
> and key for security reasons."

Without the motherboard hardware supporting VID changes, this tool does
nothing. This is also what the article says: "But the motherboard, too, must
fulfill requirements in handling a pseudo-mobile processor." So - with some
boards it may work, most board don't recognize (i.e. connect) the VID pins.
If somebody has a list of boards that do use the VID pins - that would be
great. 

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