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FIC PA-2013 v2.0 and AMD K6-2+ 500Mhz

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First post, by kanecvr

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Hi guys. I'm trying to get a K6-2+ to run on my PA-2013 to no avail. The board posts, and the CPU is ID'd as a K6 at 66MHz??? but it refuses to boot. It hangs just after counting memory. I updated the BIOS to the latest version found on the FIC FTP site, but it still won't ID the CPU correctly or boot.

Here's the BIOS I used:

The attachment Ji1537.rar is no longer available

Could someone with bios modding please have a look and tell me if it supports the K6-2+? Thanks!

Reply 1 of 3, by kanecvr

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[SOLVED]

Ok I figured it out. Only the ji4333 beta bios supports "+" CPUs. It also supports large hard drives. It's kind of hard to find so I'll post a copy of it here:

FIC PA-2013 2.0 K6-2+ / K6-3+ and large HDD JI4333 beta bios:

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Reply 3 of 3, by kanecvr

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gdjacobs wrote:

Your first starting point for K6-2+ / K6-III+ should be Jan Steunebrink's page.
http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/k6plus.htm

Yes, he has the beta BIOS linked.

Thanks for the link - saved for future reference. The bios I posted above works fine with the K6-2+ - unfortunately the boards's L2 cache is bad - luckily the K6-2+ has 128kb of L2 on die 😁

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