First post, by keenmaster486
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I upgraded the CPU in my Thinkpad 600e to a Pentium III Coppermine 600 MHz. It is well known that some hacks have to be applied to make this work. First, I had to disable the L2 cache in the BIOS in order to get it to boot at all. Then I had to re-enable it in software after the fact using SetMul. Making sure with CACHECHK in DOS, that worked! Before re-enabling, it said I probably had fake cache. After re-enabling, it said the cache was present, working, and fast. So I just added “SETMUL L2E” to my AUTOEXEC.BAT before anything else has loaded. (This is Win98SE)
(Edit: forgot to mention the CPU is currently running at 500 MHz instead of 600, due to not having applied the SpeedStep disabling mod. Didn’t want to start soldering resistors and cutting traces.)
Doing some tests with MPEG-1 videos, I can’t get it to stutter with a 8192kbps 1024x576 resolution MPEG-1 movie, even while it is streaming over the WiFi using VLC. Works perfectly. With the previous PII/400, it couldn’t do this.
Now, I’d like to play DVDs on this machine. So I put a DVD drive in it. But VLC cannot seem to play DVDs without stuttering and barely being able to play the audio at all (just plays some bits here and there). Why would this be? I cannot figure out why it wouldn’t be able to handle playing a DVD.
And now I am wondering: is my L2 cache *really* enabled?
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