First post, by andrea
Hello to all,
I'm working on a new chapter in the "Playing around with stuff that was cheap shit€ when new, much less 20 years after, and making it do things it was never designed for" series.
I have a MSI MS-6160 (440LX, socket PPGA370 (Mendocino only), VRM supports coppermine Vcore) that I'd like to fit with a Coppermine Celeron. In order to do so I've done the "classic" socket mod as seen in, for example, http://krick.3feetunder.com/370mod/.
Now it kinda works but not really: It posts and tries to boot but it's very flakey. In windows 9x it's very crashy, and NT variants freeze hard during boot*
In a weak attempt at troubleshooting I've noticed that if i disable the 2nd level cache it works well (as well as a cacheless machine can work). This made me wonder if additional socket mods are needed, not unlike those discovered here for Tillamooks on TX or K6s on Aladdins. Does anyone know if such a thing exists?
I must also add that I don't think it's a bios issues, as it behaves the same with:
- the one and only bios release MSI did (w660ms10.bin)
- the same bios patched with ROM.by's utility
- MS6159 (It's pretty much the same board, except for an onboard Rage Pro instead of the AGP slot) bios, I've tried different releases
- Gigabyte 6LMM7's latest bios. This one is supposed to support coppermines for certain.
Thank you to all and have a nice evening 😀
*W2K, for example, starts to boot up in text mode and then when the "Starting Windows" bar is full the machines freezes, right before the switch to graphical mode. XP does the same.