I'm wondering about underclocking a pentium. I've read about running
Windows XP on a Pentium Overdrive underclocked to 8MHz with 20MB RAM.
I was curious if anyone in here knew enough about the design of an
early pentium or 486 to say if its possible to go lower, like 2MHz.
For a joke I thought it would be fun to have an intel machine running
XP or Vista at an Altair paced clock speed. XP took 30 minutes to
boot at 8MHz, so I imagine a bare bones Vista would take a few hours
at 2MHz, that is if Vista would even run on a Pentium...
To me this is kind of like the project where someone booted Mac OS X
on a 25MHz Centris 650 using a PPC emulator. Except most likely faster. : )
Maybe I'm just looking for something to carry me through the Alaskan
winter. : )
Any thoughts? My first one is to set the jumpers as low as they
would go and then start changing the onboard
crystals/oscillators. Chances are the BIOS would still report 8MHz
to windows and the screen shot wouldn't look as cool?
I have already overclocked the Kenbak-1 500%, and underclocked it
800%. Time to move on to bigger and better things.
Grant