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QQQ
06-16-01, 10:42 PM
Help,
I'm trying to keep the old girl useful...
I ran it by mistake for hours w/CPU fan disconnected, no problem, stable w/ only the heatsink there.
What should I do? These are my current MOBO jumper settings (and alternates).
External Clock: 66MHz (75 or 83), Internal Clock: 2.5x (K6 3.0x or K6 3.5x), Core voltage: 2.9v (2.5, 2.8, 3.2, 3.3, or 3.5v). CAVEAT: My not-really-an-Asus mobo doesn't exactly correlate with manual, so some of the settings may be suspect, particularly the clock speeds - I think Int. speed is set at 2.5x (from looking at it and the manual), but 66MHz x 2.5 is only 166, not the 200 it appears to be really running at.
Please forgive this newbie's verbosity and give me the benefit of your wisdom. Should I just go ahead and switch jumpers? which ones? which one first?
I live on an island miles away from pavement and junk food, so please help if you can.
Thanks
P.S. I'm insanely jealous of your rigs.

SleepyKat
06-16-01, 11:00 PM
The old K6 200 should have no problem going to 225 thru using the multiplier. My K6-200@225 ran for years like that. As for the extrnal clock, I did not have much luck with that side because of the PCI bus multiplier ...some things just don'y like running at 38 Mhz on the PCI slots. I left the chip voltage the same. If you could snag the MB ID number as it boots up, you may be able to determine the actual mfr and get a "better" manual.

Wega!
06-18-01, 09:14 AM
Yep, I have also made a K-2 200MHz run at 225MHz (Or 233MHz, I can't really remember). It's just as stable at 225 as it is at 200MHz