Re: Setting jumpers for a K6-2/550 on a Soyo 5SSB motherboard

Posted on 2023-09-14, 03:18

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The K6-2 550 interprets the 2x multiplier as 6x, which allows it to be run @ 400 to 500 MHz in older Socket 7 motherboards with 66 to 83 MHz frontside bus speeds. My hunch is that the motherboard can't properly display the correct speed, and this is also throwing Linux off. Your best bet is to go …

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Setting jumpers for a K6-2/550 on a Soyo 5SSB motherboard

Posted on 2023-09-14, 01:35

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I'm having a lot of weirdness trying to set multiplier jumpers on a K6-2/550 on this Soyo. I've found some conflicting information on how to properly set these CPUs. After some trial and error, I ended up with the following configuration: FSB: 100 MHz Multiplier: 2.0x And the BIOS reports 550 MHz, …

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Re: Dual Pentium 133: what to use it for?

Posted on 2023-09-05, 23:13

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Install Debian 2.1 on it.. it is useless gsming-wise.. No way, that's far too old. Load it up with RAM, dual P233 MMX and install Debian 8! Could make a solid httpd for some static pages. Something like that. Maybe an ircd if OP is into that? Or how about an SMTP/IMAP mail server? Anything like …

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Re: Soyo SY-5SSB instability

Posted on 2023-08-26, 03:08

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Thanks, I wasn't aware of this issue before. Great to know. I either never had a board with this problem before or never used high density modules on them.

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Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?

Posted on 2023-08-26, 01:05

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I have both Book8088 and Hand386. Really wanted a working XT and bought Hand386 in addition just to look at it - i love pocket devices. Book8088 wasn't normally working right from start - keyboard was unusable (Enter returns o, Backspace - 9, etc.). After and hour of testing other aspects (with …

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Soyo SY-5SSB instability

Posted on 2023-08-26, 00:59

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I'm having an issue with a new old stock Soyo SY-5SSB. SiS 530 chipset. It's extremely unstable. Like for example, it'll boot Windows 2003 setup. I can get past partitioning and it starts to copy the files, but it'll either say one of the files it's copying is corrupt or it'll blue screen. Things …

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Re: Just got my hands on this Socket 7 motherboard

Posted on 2023-08-23, 20:28

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Thanks for digging up some of the tech details. So, this model is sounding pretty ideal to just stick 64 MB into and make it into a capable DOS/Win98 gaming box. I have a P233 MMX that would be a good fit here. I also have a Soyo SY-5SSM (with SiS 530 chipset) on the way from eBay that looks like it …

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Re: Just got my hands on this Socket 7 motherboard

Posted on 2023-08-23, 14:59

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Well... The L2 cache has traces to the processor, so that's a good start. ;) That's definitely a win. 😆 I appreciate the link about the sound chip, there's some useful info in there. I'll slap a CPU in it tonight and see if it even works. Then see if it can handle two 256 MB sticks of SDRAM! Not …

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Just got my hands on this Socket 7 motherboard

Posted on 2023-08-23, 14:55

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I got this baby AT board from a friend at work today. He wasn't sure what model it is, but after a little bit of Googling it appears to be a PCChips M559. Anyone have any experience with these? I know sometimes some of these later socket 7 boards can have chipsets that are a little quirky. Hopefully …

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Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?

Posted on 2023-08-14, 01:18

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I have both the Book 8088 and the Hand 386. I don't think these will be future classics. I like them, they are cool toys, but they both have issues that really prevent me from calling them awesome. Especially the Hand 386. Turns out when it's plugged into the wall and powered on, it still only runs …

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Re: XTulator (yet another PC emulator)

Posted on 2021-07-27, 23:07

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Great stuff... maybe just shooting crap here, but while it's still simple, do you think there's any hope of getting it to full XT speed on something like an ARM cortex M3 at 200Mhz or so??? Am thinking of XT on an arduino sized PCB kind of deally, probably bitbang composite out, maybe USB keyboard, …

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Testing a port of an IRC server to DOS, running on an 8088.

Posted on 2021-07-27, 03:59

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Not sure if this is the best spot for this post, but getting an IRC server working on an 8088 is something I've wanted to do for a long time. I know that's maybe a little bit of an odd thing to want to do, but IRC servers are very interactive with people chatting on them all the time, so it makes …

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Re: XTulator (yet another PC emulator)

Posted on 2021-07-27, 03:03

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DOS Harddisk images don't work yet, right? I could run a few PC Booters, everything looks fine. https://i.imgur.com/HGN5MJh.png https://i.imgur.com/6E0zCbu.png https://i.imgur.com/24sYE4Y.png https://i.imgur.com/oHOQoSb.png Glad to have another PC emulator on the scene. I haven't been here for a …

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Re: Dual Tualatin 1.4 GHz build - motherboard selection

Posted on 2020-09-17, 14:15

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"Flexible Disk" is just what HP calls floppy disks. I don't know why they do this. It also confused me when I encountered it. It's a perfectly normal drive. They also call services 'agents' for whatever reason. The Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) firmware is the firmware of the Remote …

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Re: Dual Tualatin 1.4 GHz build - motherboard selection

Posted on 2020-09-17, 03:27

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They work! And I was right the first time, it was an LP 1000R after all. I was at work when I made the earlier posts and couldn't check for sure. But anyway, success. 😀

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Re: Dual Tualatin 1.4 GHz build - motherboard selection

Posted on 2020-09-17, 03:17

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Success! But it was setting the SHELL variable in config.sys to A:\PHLSHWRP.HDS Setting it to start with C:\ still failed because something in their shell was hardcoded to look for something on A:\ So I just had it use command.com as the shell, copied PHLSHWRP.HDS to PHLSHWRP.COM, did SUBST A: C:\ …

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Re: Dual Tualatin 1.4 GHz build - motherboard selection

Posted on 2020-09-17, 02:43

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I was just in the middle of trying. 😀 It shouldn't really care what it's booting from, theoretically.

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Re: Dual Tualatin 1.4 GHz build - motherboard selection

Posted on 2020-09-17, 01:35

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Crap is there any way to flash the BIOS from Windows? This board doesn't have a normal floppy header. It has a "flexible" port that would need some kind of adapter I don't have. I tried burning a CD with the flasher disk image as the boot data. It boots DOS but won't get into the flasher utility. My …

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Re: Dual Tualatin 1.4 GHz build - motherboard selection

Posted on 2020-09-16, 20:35

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If it takes a 1.26 Tually S then I honestly cannot see why it won't take a 1.4S, I think its practically the same thing with a different multiplier? I checked the 1.26S uses the same stepping as the 1.4S. What is the S-Spec numbers of the 1.26S? My CPUs are at home so I can't check, but it looks …

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Re: Dual Tualatin 1.4 GHz build - motherboard selection

Posted on 2020-09-16, 19:37

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Hi all. I'm trying to build myself something I've been meaning to get around to for a long time. A dual Tualatin P3 1.4 GHz system. I tried it with an Asus TR-DLSR server board. This one apparently came out of an HP NetServer LP1000r according to the BIOS. The board came with dual 1.26 GHz …

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