First post, by AlaricD
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I have a Ti486SXL-40 on a board with the BIOS ID X0-0100-001379-00101111-060692-495SX_A-F. This board has a specific L1 Cache entry in the Advanced BIOS settings, and so should have full support for the Cx486DLC and presumably the Ti486SXL. I had a .PDF manual of it somewhere (that I'd found on STASON.ORG after looking at all the line drawings and finding the one that most closely matched) but can't find it now, but I think the jumpers are all set correctly for the ISA bus clock ratio and stuff.
When the turbo is set to the slow mode, the system is extremely unstable and will often freeze up during even just booting to MS-DOS 6.22 without any memory managers/drivers (I have a multiboot configuration with one option being "CLEAN" and not loading anything). One thing that reliably freezes it is the Superscape 3DBench, which will draw the initial screen with the computer and the "HAL" in the background, and the countdown never moves. I have to hit reset to regain control of the system.
When the system is at the full speed, it runs just fine. I suppose it shouldn't bother me too much, but maybe I'd like to slow the system down a bit for some of the much older games used to 8088/8086 systems without any caching at all.
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