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First post, by bel667

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Hi guys!

I recently bought a retro computer with a 486-GVT-2 motherboard and a 486DX2-66 CPU. I'm fairly happy with it but not sure my cache is installed correctly. When received it had two cache modules in both bank 0 and 1 and not all 4 in bank 0 like it should be. When I moved them all to bank 0 it displays 128kb in the bootup but when running cachechk it states that I have both l2 and l3 cache and with the message 'this can't be right' ??

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Any suggestions? Is my cache installed correctly?

Regards,
John

Last edited by bel667 on 2018-09-29, 09:22. Edited 1 time in total.

486-GVT-2 Mainboard
486DX2-66
AWE64

Reply 2 of 3, by bel667

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derSammler wrote:

Why did you even move the cache chips? Chances are that they *were* installed correctly before.

Several reasons. It did not register in the bootup before. The manual says 4 modules in bank 0 when using 128kb. And cachechk listed only l1 cache. Benchmarks also gives my a higher score after I moved them

486-GVT-2 Mainboard
486DX2-66
AWE64

Reply 3 of 3, by treeman

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do you have manual/jumper settings for your board? cache usually needs to be set by jumpers for correct size and possibly bank location

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