In his comments in his Socket 7 shootout, WaybackTECH states: "One problem with the Rise MP6 that I forgot to mention in this video, is that the MP6 is a BGA processor, and are prone to failure due to heat and time, and probably heatsink pressure as well. It took 3 processors before I got at least one that was working."

Maybe I'll go ahead an order one myself. If it works then you might have some joy with a different board. Otherwise it looks like the vendor is selling duds. I'm assuming you purchased from this auction?

Yep, that's the one, I did see the wayback tech video, think you linked it too me when I posted in the retro hardware buy thread. Pretty sure it's a dead chip, oh well, to be honest I did kinda of expect that.

BSA Starfire wrote:

Yep, that's the one, I did see the wayback tech video, think you linked it too me when I posted in the retro hardware buy thread. Pretty sure it's a dead chip, oh well, to be honest I did kinda of expect that.

And yet I'm still tempted to buy one. Buying stuff in the hope it will work - surely that's a kind of insanity? 😉

🤣,that temptation is probably how that Chinese seller earns his rent!
It is a shame they are so fragile though, it's not like they are common either, must be the rarest of the non prototype socket 7 CPU's.

BSA Starfire wrote:

🤣,that temptation is probably how that Chinese seller earns his rent!
It is a shame they are so fragile though, it's not like they are common either, must be the rarest of the non prototype socket 7 CPU's.

Hi, does it happen to have any spare of the non-working MP6 CPU? Plan to test a few things and if it has straight pins it should work for me.