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First post, by raindog1975

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I am trying to set the CPU frequency for a K6-2 400 on a Matsonic MS6260 according to the manual by setting the CPU FSB to 100 MHz and and the multiplier to 4x but I get ( according to Sysosft Sandra ) CPU FSB 84 MHz and PCI 42 MHz ( and a pretty unstable system as a result ) . I checked and triple checked the jumper configuration ( including what's printed on the motherboard itself ) and I can't get 100 MHz CPU FSB . I settled for now at FSB 66 with a 5.5x multiplier( the maximum the board allows ) = 363 MHz for the CPU and the PCI is at 33 MHz ( and the system seem very stable ). Any ideas what's wrong ?

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AMD K6-2 400 Matsonic MS6260S 128 MB SDRAM PC 100 TNT2 M64 32 MB - Win 98 SE
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Reply 1 of 4, by meljor

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Picture of the jumpers please.

Edit: all jumpers off (so none placed at all) on jp12 should give 100mhz fsb. And btw: selecting a 2x multi on most k6-2 cpu's gives you a 6x multi (designed this way so upgrading old non-super 7 boards was possible and people could still reach 400mhz.)

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Reply 2 of 4, by raindog1975

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Thank you for the reply but I just solved the problem! I've noticed a lot of dirt around the jumper area and other ''crowded'' areas of the board so I've cleaned it ( warm water and liquid dish soap - after removing the bios battery and all the jumpers ) and after it dried i used contact cleaner on pretty much every contact surface on the board including the jumpers , also I removed the bios chip and used contact cleaner on the chip and the socket , put everything back together , set the jumpers for 100 MHz FSB , multiplier at 4x and it worked. I even run 3dmark99 to check for stability issues.
One other issue is that the external cache is not recognized by windows ( according to Sandra and WCPUID ) and it is enabled in BIOS.

Pentium MMX 166 Acorp 5VIA3P 32 MB EDO-Ram Matrox Millennium 4 MB -Win 95 OSR 2
AMD K6-2 400 Matsonic MS6260S 128 MB SDRAM PC 100 TNT2 M64 32 MB - Win 98 SE
AMD Athlon 1GHz Soltek SL-75 KAV 256 MB SDRAM PC 133 Geforce 6800 GT / FX 5500 - work in progress

Reply 3 of 4, by meljor

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Looking at google images of wcpuid with k6-2 it seems pretty normal. I guess those programs look for l2 cache on the cpu only and don't see the motherboard cache. K6-3 it does display the 256kb l2 cache but ignores (again) the motherboard cache which then really is l3 cache.

Good to hear you found the problem!

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asus tusl2-c, p3-S 1,4ghz, voodoo5 5500, live!
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Reply 4 of 4, by raindog1975

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I didn't remember if L2 cache was recognized - the last time I had a K6-2 was almost 20 years ago - but I'll run a couple of benchmarks with the cache enabled/disabled in BIOS to see if it makes any difference in Windows.

Pentium MMX 166 Acorp 5VIA3P 32 MB EDO-Ram Matrox Millennium 4 MB -Win 95 OSR 2
AMD K6-2 400 Matsonic MS6260S 128 MB SDRAM PC 100 TNT2 M64 32 MB - Win 98 SE
AMD Athlon 1GHz Soltek SL-75 KAV 256 MB SDRAM PC 133 Geforce 6800 GT / FX 5500 - work in progress