tony359 wrote on 2024-02-17, 13:35:

I painfully went through the 200+ video clips and 15+hours of footage and made a video of this upgrade/repair! 😀 I hope you like it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_k3xtvr3Kw

Thank you very much, I don't know if the message was addressed to me, but I assure you that I follow your channel every day (at least when I can), I really like the videos, I saw the latest one after a few hours of its publication, and I find strange that the k6-2+ transformed into k6-3+ gives functioning problems, usually if they fail, they don't work at all, but staying on topic, I reordered several PCs, among these there was a MB Soyo with K6- 2+ 550, unfortunately I found a bad surprise, some capacitors have exploded or swollen, for this reason I will have to replace those and perhaps the others nearby, you never know what condition they are in, despite the normal appearance.

tony359 wrote on 2024-02-17, 13:35:

I painfully went through the 200+ video clips and 15+hours of footage and made a video of this upgrade/repair! 😀 I hope you like it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_k3xtvr3Kw

AMD K6, VIA socket 7, not even once! At least you got a video out of this 😀

PC@LIVE wrote on 2024-02-18, 15:36:

Thank you very much, I don't know if the message was addressed to me

No, it was addressed to the community but you are welcome! 😀

Yes, it was weird that the CPU died. Someone asked me if I overvolted it - if I did, it wasn't intentional. But that PC had been SO unreliable before then, it would post when it felt like doing that...
I have no clue!

When I was watching your video, and saw components fail one after another I directly thought to myself that you had a killer mainboard at first. I had that happen to me with a DFI mainboard in 1998-9. It killed every CPU and RAM that was put in it...fortunately for me the shop where I bought it gave me another board, CPU and RAM after I killed 2 K6-2 and 2 RAM sticks (and they probably killed another one testing it themself).

Minutemanqvs wrote on 2024-02-18, 15:57:

I directly thought to myself that you had a killer mainboard at first

Had same thought when ram died. Some socket7 boards (pcchips comes to mind) let you set DIMM voltage to 5V, that doesnt end well with PC100 ram.

Interesting. I should check the voltages next time I play with that board.

However, when I still had issues, moving everything to the "twin" board never solved any issues. But it could be that the CF was unreliable on both boards and "covering up" for other issues with RAM and CPU?
I believe the 591P is 3.3V only on DIMM. And also I did test with SIMM at some point. ahah what a mess! 😁