all the caps on the mb look good. None are leaking / popped / swollen. Right now I underclocked the CPU and swapped out the ram. If this doesn't work, I'll pull the board and replace all caps + VRMs. One of the VRMs gets a little hot, but not so hot that you can't touch it, so it should be fine. …

I did - unfortunately I only own K6-2's and a K6-III. I bought a K6 laptop last week, believing it has a K6-2+ cpu inside, but to my surprise in had some wierd 475MHz? low power CPU witch supports neither on-board L2 cache or on the fly multiplier switching. I found another broken K6 laptop and …

I know this thread has been dead for a while, but I got a hold of the exact same mainboard (possibly the one you had iulianv?) Did you make any further progress with it? This board came with a leaky 3/v60r 3.6v battery and blue crap all over the PCB - it cleaned up nicely, and I removed the leaking …

@tayyare - about the win98 memory issue - I've had absolutely no issue with machines running win98se with 1GB and 1.5Gb of ram. My high-en win98 rig right now is a Athlon 2600+ / Abit NF7-S / 2x512MB DDR400 / Geforce 4 Ti4200 AGP8X / Sound Blaster Live! / old 450W enermax PSU from 2004 / 80GB Maxtor …

Thanks! - been searching for hours. Apparently I suck at googleing. As soon as I finish setting it up, I'll run my usual batch of tests on it. If anyone is interested in performance numbers (and other random details) ask, and I'll post them here (together with screenshots). I'll put it up against a …

Hello everyone! In my last batch of old PC's I picked up a Commate S7AX Super Socket 7 witch has documented K6-III and 512MB SDRAM support. It's a baby AT format motherboard with an ALi Alladin V chipset. This thing gave me quite a few headaches, refusing to run my K6-2 450 test CPU at it's rated …

Sure, I'd love the CPU. It's interesting that the DX5 runs on the FIC @ 133Mhz - it turns a 2x multi in 4x - like some K6 CPUs turn 3.5x to 5.5x or 2x to 6x :) - cool. I have no issues with my FIC and write back cache. Curiously enough, I have my DX4 set to write back, and the board post just fine. …

Ah, that's good news. I do remember reading that some models of that board do have issues with 8MB modules, so watch out for that. I might have a spare AMD X5 somewhere, I would sell it, but people here like to melt them down so that puts me off. Me too - it makes me sad and angry that someone …

Ok - so related to my 486 system's poor performance - I took your advice and installed a VLB card - and I have to say, the performance difference is quite visible! I have 3 Cirrus Logic VLB cards I picked up at a collection center (because I thought they looked cool but had no ideea what a VLB bus …

Thanks, I'll give it a go - will try the bios you provided and report back tomorrow. Right now my dad is coming over and I'm having him sleep in the room i use as my computer lab. I happen to have tree VLB boards - I haven't tested any of them but I will. The 486 is very sluggish - Duke 3D runs …

Good question @QBiN- well, if you look at the top of the motherboard, you'll see tree sets of twin jumper blocks - the ones closest to the ram slots are "reset cmos/normal operation" and "recovery mode boot/normal boot". When I set the batman to recovery mode boot, it will beep once, then read the …

I'm not in any kind of rush 😀 whenever you can get to it 😀

unfortunatly it's also an update bios. It's missing some blocks. Just to make sure I put it on a floppy and tried it -no dice.

Thanks a million guys. Meantime, here's some pics of he board:

Wow, that was quick! Unfortunately it's mostly the same links I've stumbled upon while googling. The first link is the only one to provide a download for my motherboard, but it's an "update bios". Some blocks are missing and the recovery procedure hangs (starts to read the floppy, led stays on, no …

Hi guys - this is my first post but I've been reading the vogons forums for a while now. I need a bios for a socket 4 Intel Premiere/PCI motherboard (intel batman). The board won't post, but it's built-in recovery feature seems to work (jumpering the recovery pins makes the mobo beep and if I …