Nemo1985 wrote on 2020-05-26, 17:29:Sorry for the bump, I received another tillamook from a chinese ebay seller, in the meanwhile I redid the soldering.
I'm using t […]
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Sorry for the bump, I received another tillamook from a chinese ebay seller, in the meanwhile I redid the soldering.
I'm using the Aopen AX59 PRO once again, both cpus do not boot with default voltage, the system boots but hangs at the post screen with v2.2, this happens with both cpu, the system starts to boot at v2.4 but it throws errors on dos (first cpu gives random error, the second claim it can't find the command.com).
Now that I got a faulty cpu can happen, but 2 in a row sounds weird.
The first cpu has the l2 cache enabled with ASDC# to ASD bridge.
The second has no bridge at all.
I'm wondering are those chinese sellers selling faulty cpu?
I also wondered if the cpu could be a relabelled pentium mmx, so I tried to run the first cpu at v2.8 (should be the voltage of the vanilla pmmx cpus) but it hanged at the memory screen. (I did this with just the first cpu since I don't want to risk the other cpu).
Then I tried the Asus SP98AGP-X, with this one the cpus do not get detected (debug card says ----), even with both l1 and l2 cache disabled from bios.
I could try the Epox MVP3G5 and the Gigabyte ga-5ax rev 5.2, but I start to think that those cpus are really troublesome to find the right mb.
Any suggestion?
I have tested quite a few boards with a Tillamook (with and without mods on the cpu).
3 different versions of the Epox mvp3 board: NO GO.
Aopen ax59pro: NO GO
Asus P5A and P5A-B (every revision of these boards as well) : NO GO
Asus SP97-V: NO GO
Asus SP98agp-X: NO GO
2 different mvp3 DFI boards: NO GO
Asus TX97 (2 versions): GO (but even with modded cpu no working cache)
Tested several others that wouldn't work (some boot but cache not working even with the mods).
What does work? (And works well) are the gigabyte GA-5AX and GA-5AA ali V boards (with modded cpu cache works fine!). I would love to get one of my Asus SS7 boards working but it seems that very few Asus boards even boot without cache enabled.. maybe they are missing some sort of micro code in their bios? Imho the Asus boards are the fastest, they always came on top when doing benchmarks with a k6-3+ CPU. But the Gigabyte boards are still fine performers and I think the best bet for Tillamook setups . My Tillamooks are the 266mhz versions with the same packaging as the normal mmx cpu.
Only board I didn't test back then is the FIC 503+. I do have one but i HATE the massive amount of jumpers on that board.
The ONLY board I know of that works without any mods and with working cache (tested myself) is a ECS P5SJ-A. Its a SiS chipset but unfortunately for me without 100fsb or AGP slot. It works fine and stable at 4x75fsb (300mhz). Also the 4x multi works on this board without a mod (needs the 2x setting on this one). Downside is that it's a low performing board so any TX board with a normal 233mhz mmx cpu clocked at 3,5x 75fsb would be just as fast, 3,5x83mhz on a good board would be a bit faster.
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