Guys, I'm in a fix. I've a guy coming here tomorrow wanting his NT4 system upgrading to Win2k and all relevant drivers applied.
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Guys, I'm in a fix. I've a guy coming here tomorrow wanting his NT4 system upgrading to Win2k and all relevant drivers applied.
So far so good.
Then he tells me it's a dual K6-2. I ask him if I heard that right. I did. It used to be a dual P200 MMX, it's now a dual K6-2 400 (66x6).
Now I know that the K6 series were multiprocessor able, but I've never actually seen it being done.
What chipset is it likely to be using and where do I get the drivers from?
Anything to be aware of when installing Win2k onto this?
Anything else?
H@
BobDole, SS7 just meant SDRAM, AGP and 100MHz FSB. I've personally had K6-2s running in old TX motherboards but the board identifies them as K6 rather than K6-2 although the OS does detect the 3DNow! instruction set.
I'll find out tomorrow anyway!
H@
The BIOS reports them as "Unknown (2)" but still allows them to POST. I haven't seen that before. They won't boot if the short memory test is enabled though, it freezes after the memory test completes. Strange.
The clock speed is 400 (66x2 on the mobo)
Strange thing is, they actually work. I was honestly expecting only one CPU to work. The chips themselves are 2.2V 450s and they're in socket adapters with rather meaty heatsinks and really piss poor fans.
Win2k installed without hitch and the system went on it's merry way.
Yes, K6s are multiprocessor capable and they do have bus snooping for cache invalidation. Check AMD's docs.
First time for everything, I suppose.
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I'd show you pics if the board was still here. It came in, was installed, and went out the same day.
I didn't recognize the motherboard, nor did I check anything other than that there were two CPU graphs in Task Manager.
From memory, it had no AGP, it had three PCI, three ISA, no USB, AT form factor with the AT power connector next to the parallel port for some strange reason. It ran from SIMMs and had 128MB installed as (32+32)+(32+32). Only four slots were provided.
There was no COAST slot(s), no UDMA (I think) and precious little in the way of the BIOS, which was an AMI BIOS.
Cards installed were a 3Com 509B in the ISA and a 33.6k modem in the ISA. PCI consisted of an S3 Trio64 (735) and a Soundblaster16 PCI.
The SB16PCI also needed replacing, so I installed an Avance ALS4000.
That's all I know.
I should have paid more attention if I'd have known you guys were more interested. Sorry View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif
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Phone transcript (from memory, but it wasn't long ago)
ME: "A few guys are really interested in that system you brought in"
HIM: "The dual?"
ME: "Yep. Where did it come from? We can't identify the board."
HIM: "Mark's, about a year ago"
Mark is a guy who runs from a warehouse. He takes computers from businesses that have upgraded and assembles them into "refurbished" models. This is usually taking the RAM out of a 486 and sticking it into a Pentium so it has more than the usual 16MB!
ME: "Okay, any idea where he got it from?"
HIM: "No idea."
I'll try Mark later in the week, I've got a bit of business to do with him anyway.
H@