Can not get Tualatin pin mod to work

Can not get Tualatin pin mod to work - RAM issue?

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First post, by britain4

Posted on 2018-05-03, 17:23

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I have an MSI 440BX motherboard (MS6119), MS6905 V2 slotket and a 1.4ghz Tualatin. This combo has been successfully used by kaputnik amongst others I believe but having done the pin mod to the slotket the machine will not POST.

I currently only have PC100 memory available. The machine will not boot with the FSB set to 133 on my PIII 450 because either the CPU or the memory won’t handle the higher speeds.

I’m wondering if the no-POST issue could be down to the PC100 when the Tualatin is installed - there is a jumper setting on the slotket to force 100 FSB which I have selected but I don’t know if it’s working or not due to the slotket being designed for Coppermine.

Is this likely to be stopping the system from POSTing or am I barking up the wrong tree with it? It’s running a Geforce4 Ti 4200, maybe that doesn’t like the overclocked AGP bus?

- 486DX2-66, SoundBlaster 16, Crystal VLB graphics
- P-MMX 200MHZ, PCChips M598LMR, Voodoo 1, AD1816
- PIII 933MHz, MSI MS6119, Voodoo3 3000, SB Live!
- PIII 1400MHz, ECS P6IPAT, Voodoo5 5500, SB Audigy

Reply 1 of 2, by dionb

Posted on 2018-05-03, 18:19

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If in doubt about the AGP bus, use a PCI card - at least if the 6119 has a 1/4 PCI divider.

Reply 2 of 2, by britain4

Posted on 2018-05-03, 18:53

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Cheers for the reply. I was considering doing just that. However, I’ve managed to come up with something I didn’t think of previously...

When doing the pin mod, the guide I followed said to isolate the 3 pins and then bridge the two that need bridging on the solder joints on the back of the board. The way I understood that though if the pins are isolated making the bridge wouldn’t be connecting anything to anything...

So I bridged them on the front side of the socket instead and yippee! It boots. For the record this board defaults to 66FSB when the CMOS is cleared so that wasn’t the issue.

Only issue is it still wont POST at 133FSB. It boots fine at 112 like my P3 450 did but no more. Guessing that’s down to the RAM now so off to buy some PC133 sticks!

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