Its a PC Chips board? I'm not surprised at all by your troubles. I wouldn't be so quick to blaim the COAST module. Did PC Chips ever make fake pipeline burst cache? PC Chips and fake components? Was water ever wet? Hah, it's true, the board could just be a sleeping giant of awful- but I will say, …

Is this your motherboard? http://motherboards.mbarron.net/models/pcchips/m525.htm Wow, I'm speechless...spent 2 weeks trying to find any reference to this board, which isn't branded. And now this wealth of data! Thank you sir. According to this manual, if the coast module isn't specced for INTEL's …

MEGA UPDATE: I decided to perform a complete tabulated test of all possible configurations. There are two lines in System Configurations which loads after POST that discuss cache status on the machine- Cache Value (#), and L2 Cache type (type). The following are my results WITH MODULE INSTALLED …

So I search th OP's past posts and found this one Assuming the OP is talking about the same board here... The rightmost motherboard has onboard L2 chips and adding another 256KB coast will make it 512KB. Another thing that could go wrong is the setting of tag ram. Some boards come with 8KB tag ram …

L2 cache shouldn't cause any errors unless it's faulty or configured incorrectly. Set the jumpers to 256k and see what happens To my regret and shame, I must report that I *already* had the jumpers set to 256kb to begin with. So now I'm not sure what the trouble is. Are these modules write-back/ …

It reads on the sticker, 32k addresses times 64 bits = 2048 kilobits = 256 kilobytes. So I think it's not 512KB cache stick but 256KB. As I feared. I was desperate for a compatible cache stick, and jumped on the item which was advertised as "Samsung KMM764V41AG2-15 512Kb Cache for Socket 7" - Guess …

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Good day Vogons! I received a (supposedly) 512kb COAST L2 Cache module from an Ebayer today and installed it in my Socket 7 machine (Pentium 166, 64MB EDO, SB Vibra 16, Diamond S3 Trio) and enabled the L2 cache for the first time in BIOS. UH OH! I received the following error when trying to boot …

UPDATE: After running into a HIMEM issues related to my latest attempt to install a COAST module on the mobo, I was forced to restart Windows in safe mode and then restart the system. On a wild hunch, I attempted to run DIAGNOSE again... ...total success! All IRQ, DMA, and Address settings passed ( …

Where did you get your drivers from? I think you might need sbw9xup.exe I will load up the disc after I return from finals this afternoon, but I know for a fact I used this SB16 ISO from the Vogons library (http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=800&menustate=42,35) It has drivers for 6.2, …

Thanks for the reply. As for why I made the manual changes: A) I have indeed removed my printer port and disabled it in BIOS, so there is no conflict issues there. B) I started reading some documentation indicating what the default values were, particularly in the early days of SB cards. Since I …

Hullo Vogons! I recently purchased a shiny ISA SB CT2800 Vibra card with IDE/Waveblaster header and OPL3 chip, to install in my less-than-shiny Socket 7 machine. A little background on the machine- I've set up a multiboot with Ranish, and am running a squeaky clean install of '95 on half my hard …

Thanks for the reply! As for pics, I am out of the town for a couple days, but I found the following pictures on Ebay of other MOBOs listed as P&Q 9600 series- https://thumb.ibb.co/na8LD5/s_l500.jpg https://thumb.ibb.co/njPtY5/s_l1600_1.jpg https://thumb.ibb.co/efqp6Q/s_l1600.jpg The second and …

Good day Vogons at large! Long time reader and first time poster here, with a question for ya'll regarding the mysterious MOBO I found in a recent thrift find. Walked out of the house about 2 weeks ago with the sudden urge to finally bite the bullet and try to start up a DOS gaming rig- but given …