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274 Mhz, MB IDE, PCI NIC --- All Ok!!

New Message274 Mhz, MB IDE, PCI NIC --- All Ok!! (modified 0 times) Solder Boy
Just finished setting up my WSP. Here are the specs. 274Mhz, on board IDE, PCI NIC. All seems to be fine. I'm running reliability test now. Here is how:

Hardware:
Activate on board IDE, Flash BIOS to the ALLWELL bios from the 4bios.zip, JP6 (V1-open,V2-short, V4-short, V8-open) 2.6V. CPU multiplier (JPA1=1,JPA1=0,JPA1=1). Activate the Turbo setting on the clock chip, http://www.icst.com/pdf/9159c-14.pdf . Short pin 4 and 5. Change the CPU heatsink to a larger one. I'm using Western Digital 8.4G HD and Netgear FA301 10/100 PCI NIC.

Software:
Follow these steps, otherwise UDMA might not come up. Install the NIC card last!!!

1. Flash BIOS to the Allwell bios

2. In the BIOS turn off USB. I also turned off prt, com1, and com2, since I don't need them.

3. Set up the hd on another computer by copying the cab files over, also copy the drivers for the chipset, video, Audio, NIC. Unzip the Audio, Video, Udma and NIC files into separate directories. Also you should copy winzip into the HD.

4. Transfer the HD over to WSP and setup Win98. Once it has completed, install the chipset driver, don't use the video driver from the chipset zip file.

5. Reboot and install the Audio driver. Once it has completed goto system manager and change the HD controller setting to Primary only. This will free up IRQ15 for USB. Change the Driver to UDMA Driver. Reboot.

6. Install the Video driver for the CyberPro. Reboot.

7. Goto BIOS and turn on USB support. Setup the USB in Win98. Shutdown.

8. Install the NIC and Reboot again. At this point everything should be installed w/o any conflicts.

At 2.9V I can boot into win98 at 301Mhz but sandra test of MMX functions will cause the system to lockup. I'll play around with this some more.

Please Search the old threads for the drivers mentioned above.

Solder Boy

05-05-2000 01:12:58

New MessageRE:274 Mhz, MB IDE, PCI NIC --- All Ok!! (modified 0 times) linuxdude
And you're running Windooze why?

the hell, Linux is the way to go.

05-05-2000 01:15:42

New MessageRE:274 Mhz, MB IDE, PCI NIC --- All Ok!! (modified 0 times) Dr. Evil
Hey Solder Boy, what is the best method to short out the pins?

Jesus.. wtf is up with your linux ppl.. damn.

05-05-2000 12:08:43

New MessageRE:274 Mhz, MB IDE, PCI NIC --- All Ok!! (modified 0 times) captaingoodnight
try it and you'll know...
05-05-2000 12:19:17

New MessageRE:274 Mhz, MB IDE, PCI NIC --- All Ok!! (modified 0 times) El Barto
There's nothing really special about Linux over Windows...it's just word of mouth, people feel better knocking Windows and praising Linux. Linux is fun to dick around with, maybe, but Windows has more support and is easier to use.
05-05-2000 12:41:21

New MessageRE:274 Mhz, MB IDE, PCI NIC --- All Ok!! (modified 0 times) Solder Boy
Linux is on the other partition, I'll try to get it to work after I stablized this OS. I really hate to have to write a device driver for the hardware. This MediaGX stuff is really wacky and slow. Clock for clock the winchip2 in the IOP is much faster. And the MVP4 chip is much faster than the CX5530.

Dr. Evil, I just bridged it w/ solder.

I just got an ALPHA socket 7 heatsink in trying to get a stable 300Mhz. NG!! Time to put this puppy and a K6-2 550 in my IOP and see how far I can push it. I'll post the result next week, time to windsurf instead of websurf.

05-05-2000 12:48:32

New MessageRE:274 Mhz, MB IDE, PCI NIC --- All Ok!! (modified 0 times) Dr. Evil
Hey Solder Boy, you know what you are talking about, how hard would it be to create a PLL plugin for SoftFSB? That way we could possibly go around the "shorting of the pins". Possible?
05-05-2000 20:25:04

New MessageRE:274 Mhz, MB IDE, PCI NIC --- All Ok!! (modified 0 times) as I recall
Solder Boy- what program are you using to get an accurate Mhz rate from the CPU....I've tried a couple with mixed results...

thanks

05-08-2000 10:56:57

New MessageRE:274 Mhz, MB IDE, PCI NIC --- All Ok!! (modified 0 times) H-Oda
try http://www.h-oda.com for a program to give you cpu speed. try WCPUID
05-08-2000 11:21:27

New MessageRE:274 Mhz, MB IDE, PCI NIC --- All Ok!! (modified 0 times) Monty
Most people just look while the PC is booting up. I don't know about your websurfer, but after you get the WebSurfer slash screen, you get the RAM test blah blah blah screen along with CPU speed. Not quite as spiffy as CPUID, but for people who now how to read, it works fine.


Monty

05-11-2000 09:03:23

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