shamino wrote:It should work with 440FX motherboards. But that greatly diminishes the interest, since the 440FX is already common on native S […]
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Atom Ant wrote:stamasd wrote:I was actually looking for this kind of Socket8->Slot1 adapter for my collection. But at this price I'll pass. 😀
Especially if it is not working! According to havli.
It should work with 440FX motherboards. But that greatly diminishes the interest, since the 440FX is already common on native Socket-8 motherboards anyway.
It would be a lot more interesting if somebody figures out how to hack a 440LX or 440BX BIOS to work with it. Assuming the BIOSes are the issue.
Unfortunately these things are so rare that they're bound to be expensive. I don't speak German but it looks like they have the listing set to accept offers. They might field offers for a while before deciding what they'll let it go for.
My Tualatin Celeron shows up as a Pentium Pro in Dell's BIOS for my 440BX board. This is being accomplished through a Lin-Lin and Slotket adapter. I'd think it implies that the Pentium Pro microcode is in there. In my experience with BIOS hacking, many of them have microcodes for a range of processors you wouldn't expect to be there. The manufacturer BIOS for my Abit socket 478 board has microcode for several slot 1 processors, for example.
Dell Dimension XPS R400, 512MB SDRAM, Voodoo3 2000 AGP, Turtle Beach Montego, ESS Audiodrive 1869f ISA, Dreamblaster Synth S1
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