Very likely that adapter allows you to manually specify the voltage that the mainboard should provide to the CPU instead of letting the CPU do that. This is useful if you try to overclock, because you can specify a higher VCore than the CPU requests. But it won't help you getting 1.65V if your …

I would just keep that 600Mhz Katmai and forget about faster CPU. 600Mhz is enough for many old games. If you have games it can't handle consider getting 2nd rig with Athlon XP/P4/Athlon64. Also resell those CPUs that don't work for you, someone may find those PIII 800 useful. The reason I want to …

So past 2 months, I've tried following CPUs. PIII 800MHz SL4BX PIII 866 MHz SL47S PIII 600MHz SL3JP First 2 are Coppermine CPUs and they don't even boot. =/ My motherboard BIOS does not have any function related to control voltage manually. The last one, 600MHz, is a Katmai CPU and it runs fine on …

Thank you so much for the replies guys!! It looks like it will work with right BIOS. Maybe I go look for even faster CPUs like 800MHz.

Hello, I have this motherboard, HOT-661V31, and wondering if I can use a Pentium III 600E CPU on this motherboard. The manual says it only supports Pentium II and Celeron CPUs but since the chipset is 440BX, I may have a change to use a PIII CPU on it. The problem is that the manual jumper setting …

I've been looking for getting SB Live! midi out work in pure DOS too. So the way you did is basically running games under Window98 DOS mode instead of pure DOS right? Well, that is easy. From my experience, you don't even need to use VDMSound. Just change midi output from Control panel as you …

Do you have the latest BIOS? If not, try the latest one from here . If that fails, check the pins on the CPU side, are they all intact? My BIOS is 11/25/96-i430VX-512K-2A59GD4GC-00. I found a newer one on the website you gave me but download link is dead. =/ I had tried some other updated DFI …

I see. Socket types don't really matter. That's great. My P150 uses 3.3V and the P220 MMX CPU is SY060/2.8V. I did set jumper for 2.8V before I put the CPU in but no luck. My motherboard allows me to set 5 different voltages, 2.5V, 2.8V, 2.9V, 3.3V, 3.5V, using 4 sets of jumpers. I am too scared to …

Hello. I have a P150 socket 7 computer and I thought I could use a higher clocked CPU for late 90's games. Because my motherboard, g586ipv revision C, supports up to 200Mhz, I ordered a P200 MMX from Ebay. Now I have the CPU and it won't even boot. Sad. After searching the internet, I found out …

Oh wow, Thx JoJo! I didn't know that I need to solder two more resistors 🤣. I guess I have to order them now. Thank you so much for the info.

Hello. I found that there is PC/PCI soldering points on my old Dell Dimension 2100 model. It's got a Dell custom Intel CA810E Motherboard which lacks several integrated components such as onboard sound card and LAN. Still, it's got PC/PCI soldering points and it might work with my Aopen AW744L II …

Hello! So I got this 486 PC but somehow power doesn't turn on. I think it must be related with power switch and I disconnected all wires. Initial status was like this. http://i1.ruliweb.daumcdn.net/uf/image/U01/ruliweb/566D15783A0AA0000E And then.. http://i1.ruliweb.daumcdn.net/uf/image/U01/ruliweb/ …

Thank you for your comments! Long story short, the system is gone. Well I tried a brand new battery which didn't work. I also tried to set jumpers, didn't work either. I removed all IDE devices as well as ISA cards but no go. I don't know why. Maybe I was just so frustrated. I kicked the system when …

Thank you for your comment! Yes there are those options and I can choose 'restore default' and 'auto detect'. The problem is that in order to get into that BIOS option menu, I have to remove the battery. So even if I set those options right and save&quit, it still says 'CMOS battery status low' and …

Hello. So I got this old 486 computer from an office near my work. They just threw away all their old equipments and I thought this one would work great for old dos games. However, I found out that the system doesn't boot up right. It checks the memory okay but then gives me 'wait...' message. Well …