Re: Motherboard with 1.4Ghz Tualatin support and 3 ISA slots?

Posted on 2017-03-21, 04:06

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by darry

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Get a BX board and toss this on it http://www.ebay.com/itm/Updating-/281931957654?hash=item41a4744596:g:eoQAAOSwWTRWuu99 when the seller is done updating these are $30 shipped. I already have a slot 1 BX board M6TBD with a PowerLeap PL-iP3/T and Tualeron 1300, but that only has two ISA slots, which …

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Re: Motherboard with 1.4Ghz Tualatin support and 3 ISA slots?

Posted on 2017-03-20, 23:04

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by darry

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Nice find! The AGP slot isn't keyed though. Any idea of its universal? quote="Carlos S. M."]I believe so, all Intel 815 based motherboard has AGP universal slots[/quote]) . "In order to match the 1X, 2X and 4X AGP card. The board used the Universal AGP connector. To maximize add-in flexibility. ( …

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Re: Tualatin Celeron vs Williamette Celeron

Posted on 2017-03-15, 02:30

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by darry

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You can always try out H-Oda!'s SoftFSB for 133MHz FSB, it looks like the clock generator would be the ICS 9148xx-47. Be aware that both AGP and PCI overclocks 33% too, there's no /4 divider for PCI on this generator. The executable included is a self extracting archive. Call me a wuss, but the …

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Re: Tualatin Celeron vs Williamette Celeron

Posted on 2017-03-15, 02:09

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by darry

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I see. i815EP has proper support for 133MHz, whereas i440BX gets an out of spec AGP bus speed at anything above 100MHz already. Fortunately this Geforce 4 did not complain at all. I suppose for you going beyond 133MHz is more straightforward. Speaking of i815E/i815EP, I just ordered myself one of …

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Re: Broken pin on socket 370 CPU. Still works but is it reliable ?

Posted on 2017-03-14, 01:43

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by darry

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Long URL - should go to a specific paragraph https://books.google.com/books?id=TVzjEZg1--YC&pg=PA264&lpg=PA264&dq=intel+%22trst%22+signal&source=bl&ots=iB8GNMv0B0&sig=ekeDVE-pVagt_ShyIsqrTNPIM2c&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj4x6ns4dTSAhVKxYMKHRLyApAQ6AEIYjAO#v=onepage&q=intel%20%22trst%22%20signal&f=false …

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Re: Broken pin on socket 370 CPU. Still works but is it reliable ?

Posted on 2017-03-14, 00:29

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by darry

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I would contact the seller and get either a replacement or refund. Nicely the seller offers 30 day money back so he/she would be easier to work things out with. A replacement would have been great, but considering the fact that the auction was cancelled because of stock quality issues, my hopes are …

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Broken pin on socket 370 CPU. Still works but is it reliable ?

Posted on 2017-03-13, 04:34

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by darry

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I just received a 1400 MHz Tualatin-S in the mail and found that pin AN34 (TRST) had broken clean off the CPU body . The CPU will not boot without the pin, but when I put the pin in the proper socket (hoping it would make contact with the CPU), I found that the CPU boots and works fine . Now the …

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Re: Tualatin Celeron vs Williamette Celeron

Posted on 2017-03-13, 04:12

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by darry

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As soon as I get my 1400 MHz Tualatin-S , I will be able able to compare it running at 1050 MHz to my 1300 Mhz Tualeron on a BX board (100 MHz FSB, 512MB CL2 SDRAM) I am currently using a Quadro FX1100 (FX5700 derivative), but also have a Radeon 9700 (somewhere). 1300 Mhz Tualeron on a BX board ( …

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Re: Tualatin Celeron vs Williamette Celeron

Posted on 2017-03-08, 00:37

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by darry

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the bigger cache on the Tualatin-S seems to essentially offset a 366 Mhz CPU clock difference Find it hard to believe, need a better benchmark. Problem: I have loads of lower-end graphics cards, but no 'fast' Windows 98 compatible ones. As soon as I get my 1400 MHz Tualatin-S , I will be able able …

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Re: Tualatin Celeron vs Williamette Celeron

Posted on 2017-03-07, 04:45

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by darry

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The conclusion one can make from these two benchmarks is that memory access is the bottleneck. In this use case the 105 MHz bus with CL3 SDRAM is insufficient for CPU speeds over 1 GHz While memory bandwidth is most definitely the issue, the bigger cache on the Tualatin-S seems to essentially …

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Re: Tualatin Celeron vs Williamette Celeron

Posted on 2017-03-06, 20:30

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by darry

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I never gave it much thought before. Practically all that is different between these 256kB PIIIs and Tualerons is the stock multiplier and the FSB identification. FSB identification is easily changed with a motherboard setting or a slotket jumper. That leaves the multiplier it comes with, and the …

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Re: Tualatin Celeron vs Williamette Celeron

Posted on 2017-03-05, 19:28

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by darry

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I wonder how a PIII-S 1400 running at 1050 MHz (100 MHz FSB) would fare compared to a 1300 Mhz Tualatin Celeron on a BX board , especially with newer stuff.

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Re: Audigy front panel bays - general questions

Posted on 2017-02-24, 02:46

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by darry

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You will almost definitely want to use a 40-conductor cable I currently have 2 X-FI SB0460 cards that are hooked up to "drives" using 40 conductor cables without issues . One of them is hooked up to a an X-FI drive and the the other an Audigy 2 ZS drive . The pinout for the AD_EXT connector is the …

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Re: WIP - First Pentium 2 build

Posted on 2017-02-08, 12:55

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by darry

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The BIOS below works with Coppermine CPUs : https://web.archive.org/web/20021219235945/http://www.pionex.com/drv_lib/bios/p2bnb/tbd0302d.exe If you want better CPU support and other unofficial patches, you can run it through BIOS Patcher 4.23 (I did) . http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/bios_ …

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Re: Help needed with booting slot1 boards with unsupported CPUs

Posted on 2017-02-02, 03:11

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by darry

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Tetrium wrote: The arcor site seems to be down? It literally just disappeared . http://web.archive.org/web/20161213110830/htt … /bmreport1.html

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Re: Help needed with booting slot1 boards with unsupported CPUs

Posted on 2017-02-01, 05:57

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by darry

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gdjacobs wrote: I believe BIOS Patcher works well with Award BIOS versions. Does it work equally well with AMI and Phoenix? Award only, unfortunately.

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Re: places to buy old hardware?

Posted on 2017-02-01, 05:31

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by darry

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Church/charity bazaars are another source of tech odds and ends .

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Re: Help needed with booting slot1 boards with unsupported CPUs

Posted on 2017-02-01, 05:27

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by darry

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Welcome aboard! :D Thank you, happy to be here! Do you happen to know a good resource for adding microcode to BIOS files? Something that would be good for a beginner? It sounds fun to tinker with :P For legacy hardware, BIOS Patcher makes it almost too easy. Socket 370 and older work well with 4.23 …

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Re: Hot-plugging game port joysticks

Posted on 2017-01-31, 00:07

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by darry

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The floppy controller, the game port and possibly the COM and LPT ports (not sure about the last two, it was some 25 years ago) on an ISA multi-IO card god fried when I hot-plugged a joystick into our family 386. The IDE controller part kept on working. The IO controller was UMC-based . The joystick …

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Re: Help needed with booting slot1 boards with unsupported CPUs

Posted on 2017-01-30, 17:28

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by darry

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As a late follow-up, I can know confirm that my M6TBD with Bios Patcher 4.23-ed BIOS combined with a PowerLeap PL-iP3/T ver. 2.0 (the one with voltage jumpers, which I set to 1.5V as per CPU rating) and Celeron 1300 (Tualatin) seems to work fine . The board POSTs and correctly shows a Tualatin …

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