crazii wrote on 2021-12-05, 18:20:The manual you posted, there're SX5EP and SX5EP V2.0 two boards, I don't know the difference but the SX5EP V2.0 manual says it s […]
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cyclone3d wrote on 2020-03-02, 19:51:Look at the QDI Advance 9 (Via chipset and has PC-PCI) The manual doesn't specifically say that it supports Tualatins, but it mi […]
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Look at the QDI Advance 9 (Via chipset and has PC-PCI) The manual doesn't specifically say that it supports Tualatins, but it might have been added in a later BIOS version.
• Intel® 815 chipset: This chipset contains the 82815 GMCH and 82801AA ICH. This combo supports PC-PCI / SB-Link per the datasheet.
82801aa-ICH.zip
• Intel® 815E chipset. This chipset contains the 82815 GMCH and 82801BA ICH2. This combo also supports PC-PCI / SB-Link per the datasheet.
82801ba-i-o-controller-hub-2-82801bam-i-o-controller-hub-2-mobile-datasheet-ICH2.zip.001.zip
82801ba-i-o-controller-hub-2-82801bam-i-o-controller-hub-2-mobile-datasheet-ICH2.zip.002.zip
Had to divide into a 2-part zip.
The QDI SynactiX5EP has PC-PCI and should support Tualatin.
I don't need to go through the manuals by myself to figure this out for you. You can do research yourself:
Archive page for QDI BIOSes so you can see the motherboard models:
http://web.archive.org/web/20071230050429/htt … port/driver.htm
Archive page for the QDI manuals:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080103020913/www … rt/manual_e.htm
The manual you posted, there're SX5EP and SX5EP V2.0 two boards, I don't know the difference but the SX5EP V2.0 manual says it support Tualatin for sure, but SX5EP doesn't have Tualatin in its micro-processor list.
I picked a SX5EP the other day and it lights up with P3 1G Coppermine but doesn't with a P3s 1.3G Tualatin. I saw some pics showing a SX5EP with a SX5EP V2.0 BIOS (V1.6SCLP) can work with Tualatin so I'm gonna take the shot.
UPDATE:
I failed to upgrade the BIOS to V2.0 because the new bios is only for SX5EP V2.0. I didn't risk to hack and force updating it.
And I managed to find a SX5EP V2.0 mobo and it works great with Tualatin and YMF724 with PCPCI.
Hello everyone, the usual apologies for necroposting, but this thread was far too specific not to ask:
By chance I also ended up with a QDI Advance 9 board on my hands. Did anyone in the meantime found out if it's compatible with Tualatin CPUs? I have a 1.4Ghz Tualatin that I would love to get working on this board. Motherboard.cz states that compatibility with "future" CPUs was predicted, so is it a question of updating the BIOS?
http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/qdi/Advance%209.htm
Thank you as always for your help and replies
Edit: some more googling revealed promising results, will check it out some more. From a translated quote in a link I found:
"With the patch 4-1 of www.rom.by was not working. There was no space in the file of the bios pair to adding the new microcodes, finally erase the module cpucode and the module of the Logo, (it was occupying an atrocity of space), and then utilizй the patch. It worked perfectly. There is no Logo of Qdi but in return he supports all the processors Tualatin."
A reply: "Hallo!
Try to use the current version of BPatcher - 4.23, it is more stable...
Good Luck!.."
https://www.rom.by/forum/Qdi_Advance_9_Socket … n_1400_Tualatin
This was in 2004, and his BIOS was not made available. So is it a question of patching/changing the BIOS? As for voltage and stuff like that it's fully compatible I assume?