First post, by Sphere478
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Formerly the "Tillamook Dual CPU SMP Mod. Is it possible?" thread. Turns out, looks like "probably not" turned into "pretty sure definitely not". 🙁
OP:
Okay, after decoding the mystery of the SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod
I got to thinking what else in the socket 7 line up might have something sneakily hidden that we may be able to enable?🤔
Well, I have noticed something very very suspicious about when you install two tillamooks in a dual cpu motherboard.
It actually boots…
It shows one cpu, but it does, actually, boot.
Which is very unusual. Because if you try it with literally any other cpu that doesn’t support smp it won’t even post.
So I’m wondering, is there something that can be modded to enable it?
Now there are several different models of tillamook for socket 7
We have the plastic packages we are all familiar with from the pentium mmx line,
and then there are the weird pcb designs.
And finally, there are the chinese fakes.
Each of these packages present different challenges and opportunities for accessing for the purpose of modding. So far though, I have only black plastic packages to try this with. I do have a weird pcb one but it is damaged. At some point I need to get two of each package type to make sure that smp wasn’t enabled on one of these packages.
Also as a little bonus to this thread, I think there may actually be a 4.5x multi hidden somehow in tillamook 266 chips, how it can be enabled? No idea…. But I wanna look into it.