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First post, by jheronimus

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Hi, all

I have a Lucky Star LS-P54CE (430VX) motherboard that has both a turbo LED and a turbo switch header. It's running Pentium 120 set up as a Pentium 75. I've connected the button and the LED to the motherboard, but nothing changes when I push the button and reboot — according to SI8 benchmarks, at least.

The motherboard also has a boot speed option in BIOS, but when set to low, nothing changes either. Ctrl+Alt+/- do nothing, too.

This is the motherboard

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I don't have a manual for it, so I can't be sure if it really has turbo functionality, and I know that most late Socket 7 motherboards didn't. Is there any other way I can check it? If the headers are non-functioning then it's a bit weird that there is a boot speed option there.

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Reply 1 of 3, by j^aws

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Sometimes the BIOS High/ Low speed options are just remnants from an older board setup that should've been hidden from view.

I've seen these settings, and even Turbo headers, on Slot 1 440BX boards. For Intel chipsets, the latest I have with a working Turbo header for Socket 7 is 430FX. IIRC, that was the last Intel chipset with such functionality.

Reply 2 of 3, by elianda

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Well it is simply because the turbo functionality on pentium board is changing the FSB. As the P75 already runs at 50 MHz FSB you can not switch to a lower FSB. (Basically turbo is changing FSB from 50 MHz to 50 MHz).

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Reply 3 of 3, by jheronimus

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elianda wrote:

Well it is simply because the turbo functionality on pentium board is changing the FSB. As the P75 already runs at 50 MHz FSB you can not switch to a lower FSB. (Basically turbo is changing FSB from 50 MHz to 50 MHz).

Hmm, thank you! I'll check it out. Though in that case turbo is fairly useless to me and I miht want to go back to my Pentium 60 board — it can basically go as low as a 386.

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