Hmm board doesn't appear to have L2 Cache on it

Just from a quick glance the chip to the right of the Northbridge with the TM on it looks like it should be a cache memory chip.

Yea I got confused, there is empty dram pads on the board

It posts with the voodoo, but not with the onboard

I've cleaned it up, including the PSU, i washed it in the shower so low pressure and just let the water run through it, and it got 90% of it which I'm satisfied with. It's now in the Oven at 200F for drying. The case I washed with a mix of Dawn Dishsoap and 99% isoprophyol which worked wonders to remove most of the tar staining on the case, its now not as obvious, but the only way I think to make it completly disappear to to get the original IBM paint to paint over it with

I felt safe washing it as the shop that had it, stated they have been tripping over it in their storage room, he said since about 2003/2004. So I think in all that time whatever the capictors once stored is long since discharged.

You lucky dog! An IBM with a voodoo to boot, I need to move to Texas. On Ebay something like that would go for at least 300.00 easy. Congrats on your find!

I know it came with 98 originally but I'm really considering 95 for it, of course will have to be OSR 2.5 as my smallest drive is a 20gb, which the computer recognizes

Quick question, the IDE cables are stained yellow from the previous owner smoking around it, any way to clean them up or should I just replace them. I was kind of wanting to keep it all original if possible.

candle_86 wrote:

I know it came with 98 originally but I'm really considering 95 for it, of course will have to be OSR 2.5 as my smallest drive is a 20gb, which the computer recognizes

Quick question, the IDE cables are stained yellow from the previous owner smoking around it, any way to clean them up or should I just replace them. I was kind of wanting to keep it all original if possible.

I could see wanting to keep the expansion cards original, but I think you can safely replace IDE cables without ruining the system's originality. 😀 Just don't use the black Asus ones. 🤣

candle_86 wrote:

I've cleaned it up, including the PSU, i washed it in the shower so low pressure and just let the water run through it, and it got 90% of it which I'm satisfied with. It's now in the Oven at 200F for drying. The case I washed with a mix of Dawn Dishsoap and 99% isoprophyol which worked wonders to remove most of the tar staining on the case, its now not as obvious, but the only way I think to make it completly disappear to to get the original IBM paint to paint over it with

I felt safe washing it as the shop that had it, stated they have been tripping over it in their storage room, he said since about 2003/2004. So I think in all that time whatever the capictors once stored is long since discharged.

The remaining case yellowing might be sun yellowing rather than cigarette smoke yellowing. If that's what it is, you can fix that up with some 40-volume hydrogen peroxide cream (check beauty supply places, and wear gloves - it's somewhat corrosive) and UV light exposure. Paint the stuff on, cover it with cling film then either leave it in the sun for a few hours or leave it under a strong blacklight for a bit longer.

jade_angel wrote:

candle_86 wrote:

I've cleaned it up, including the PSU, i washed it in the shower so low pressure and just let the water run through it, and it got 90% of it which I'm satisfied with. It's now in the Oven at 200F for drying. The case I washed with a mix of Dawn Dishsoap and 99% isoprophyol which worked wonders to remove most of the tar staining on the case, its now not as obvious, but the only way I think to make it completly disappear to to get the original IBM paint to paint over it with

I felt safe washing it as the shop that had it, stated they have been tripping over it in their storage room, he said since about 2003/2004. So I think in all that time whatever the capictors once stored is long since discharged.

The remaining case yellowing might be sun yellowing rather than cigarette smoke yellowing. If that's what it is, you can fix that up with some 40-volume hydrogen peroxide cream (check beauty supply places, and wear gloves - it's somewhat corrosive) and UV light exposure. Paint the stuff on, cover it with cling film then either leave it in the sun for a few hours or leave it under a strong blacklight for a bit longer.

Likely won't go that far, the issues are no internal, which wouldn't have been exposed, but it remains brownish inside in places as well as on the board, but its all clean enough I'd eat off of it metaphorically speaking.

For the IDE cables I think I'm going to see what some Dawn can do for them, I really want it original, and the only IDE cables I have laying around are rounded 80pin cables, and my only spare floppy cable is a black rounded ASUS banded cable 😜

Hmm it came with lotus suite on it, which version was in use in 1998

candle_86 wrote:

It posts with the voodoo, but not with the onboard

reset the bios for the onboard

You might want to check if the K6-2 is a normal Chompers or CXT model. CXT should be able to clock into 450-500 mhz territory at stock voltages.

It's a cxt

Well, might be time to crank it to 11!

Won't do 450 at stock voltage 🤣, but I have a K6-III 333, which doing digging wasn't an uncommon upgrade on these and could even be ordered that way