First post, by Fimbulvetr
I need some help figuring out a Supermicro Super P5STE Rev 4 (Socket 7, Intel 430HX chipset) motherboard that came with a Pentium 200 MMX installed on it that I just acquired.Information beyond some of the jumper settings [http://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/archive/Supermi … 30HX_Jumper.htm[/url] is impossible to find for this board. Supermicro doesn't keep any documentation online or support boards more than a few years old (10 or so). I was wondering if anyone with experience with this board could help me with a few questions, or if anyone has the manual for it. I know this board supports MMX processors, but I'm not sure about the jumper settings for CPU Voltage. It came with the CPU voltage jumper set at 3.3 v. I don't know if that is correct and this board detects the MMX processor and supplies dual voltage when set at 3.3v or if I should change the jumper to 2.8v. Seems to run fine at 3.3v, although is sure gives off a lot of heat... which leads to my next question.
This board came with a very large aluminium heatsink on the CPU and no CPU fan, and the style of heatsink it came with cannot have a fan added to it. The board has no fan power header on it, although it does have a weird large power connector for an overheat backup cooling fan. Should I change the heatsink out for one with a fan? Besides the fact that is is better to have more cooling than not, is it required? I'm not going to assume that the board as received was set up correctly.
There are a bunch of other odd headers and jumper on the board that are not documented that would be interesting to find out about as well.