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Upgrading my S7 machine to K6-2+, mistakes were made

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First post, by keenmaster486

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I bought a K6-2+ to put in my Socket 7 machine. It's got the BIOS that can be updated to support those CPUs (with correct voltages, multipliers etc). Stupidly, however, I just dropped the new CPU in and tried it out without even thinking about voltages... ran it at 3.3 volts (should be 2.0 volts) core voltage for a few hours. Worked fine for a while but then Quake started throwing page faults! Whatever could be the reason... I realized my mistake and powered it down, but it never did quit, just ran unstable. Am I okay? I hope I didn't damage the CPU.

I'll be trying it with the BIOS update later to see if it still works. I didn't pay a fortune for the CPU, but still. It's a K6-2+.

I also need to find a good PCI video card to match. The S3 Trio64 in there now won't cut it.

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Reply 1 of 4, by rmay635703

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Probably a Doa CPU at that point

It may run at greatly reduced clock speeds but you would need to test

Reply 2 of 4, by keenmaster486

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I got it from a relatively cheap sale on the forbidden website... they have 4 left. I may buy another just in case because they're so inexpensive.

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Reply 3 of 4, by chrismeyer6

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It's possible it could of been damaged if the cooling solution wasn't up to the task. But if you can get a backup cheap can't hurt to have it and rerun your tests and compare the two.

Reply 4 of 4, by Caluser2000

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Yesterday I fitted AMD K6-2 400. Just the core and i/o voltages as near tp spec as could. Then set the speed and multiplier as possiple.
The cpu was fitted to a mobo that was manufactured about 6 months before th cpu was manufactured. Screenfetch in Linux shows it 375Mhz just need go one notch up on the multiplier.

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