I acquired a Windows ME-era HP Pavilion from a family member. It has a PIII-1000 and an Asus built motherboard. Better than I expected. However, I'd like to experiment with a Tualatin PIII-S CPU. The motherboard has a VT82C694X northbridge. My research thus far suggests that it's not Tualatin compatible, but I've not been able to find anything conclusive either way. Does anyone know if it will accept the Tualatin?
Apollo Pro 133A (VT82C694X or VT82C694MP)
Are not officially compatible.
Some work arounds exist but your mileage may vary.
More have problems with the III-S 512k Tualatins than with the lesser cache versions.
These are the officially Tualatin compatible VIA chips
Apollo Pro 133T (VT82C694T)
PLE133T (VT8601T)
Apollo Pro 266T (VT8653)
CLE266 (VT8622 or VT8633)
If you want ISA slots that's easier to find with the first two.
The last one generally has an integrated CPU vs a socket.
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Thanks! That's what I was afraid of. Oh well.
You can mod the CPU itself or just buy an adapter from ebay.
http://runboard.com/biosupdate/t31
With an microcode update your CPU will even show up as an PIII-S
modded my cpu without the adapter, but it's kinda hard if you never did such things. I did some practicing on and old cpu which was already dead.
