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PCI USB card. Then get a USB keyboard?!?!IronPlasma said:Any way to fix this?
That might even be a stretch, since the cpu is so slow that it may not be fast enough to run the usb card properly. You may be able to find another socket 7 mobo for the case and go from there. What socket is that mobo? If it is already socket 7 and has jumpers to set the multiplier and fsb then you could probably throw a P133 or so in there and get enough out of it to at least make the comp somewhat useful. As it is, that 60mhz cpu is so slow that it cannot even run even the most basic of games properly. Keep poking around and checking out the mobo and you may find the jumpers that you are looking for to make the comp more useful.Robbie said:
PCI USB card. Then get a USB keyboard?!?!
Rob
I thought of that, but unfortunately...Robbie said:
PCI USB card. Then get a USB keyboard?!?!
Rob
He was talking about the USB card for the system I had, which is a P-133 Overdrive.TUK101 said:That might even be a stretch, since the cpu is so slow that it may not be fast enough to run the usb card properly. You may be able to find another socket 7 mobo for the case and go from there. What socket is that mobo? If it is already socket 7 and has jumpers to set the multiplier and fsb then you could probably throw a P133 or so in there and get enough out of it to at least make the comp somewhat useful. As it is, that 60mhz cpu is so slow that it cannot even run even the most basic of games properly. Keep poking around and checking out the mobo and you may find the jumpers that you are looking for to make the comp more useful.
Yep, I don't even believe this old AMIBIOS has a selection for halting on errors. So even if I could access the BIOS, I couldn't disable the option anyway.Robbie said:Hummm........ Dump the CMOS?!?! That might be a start but..... probably won't get you anywere cuz hault on error is probaby set to enable as default.
Rob
LOL, well then it still sounds like he may want to find another board. Thanks for pointing out my mistake though. I have been putting together and repairing a ton of these old systems as of late. My mother and father in law run a church and use a lot of old computers for typing up sermons etc. and I have been upgrading thier old computers to get a little more life out of them.IronPlasma said:
He was talking about the USB card for the system I had, which is a P-133 Overdrive.
No Socket 7 on these boards TUK... they are ancient. Not even Socket 5... we are talking Socket 4 here. No multiplier jumpers, and the only FSB selections are 60 and 66. No multiplier jumpers were needed since the only CPU's were the 60 and 66 at the time so the multiplier was always 1x.
-IronPlasma
batboy said:IronPlasma, the solution is to pay for shipping and I'll send you my old mobo with a P-75 on it for free. It was pulled from a working computer last spring. I'm about ready to throw it in the trash, since nobody around here wants it. Been throwing all my 486 stuff away too. If anyone wants a 486 CPU keyring, let me know. I'm building my last 2 AT machines from parts in my parts box and want to get rid of all the rest of the antique junk. If anyone is looking for old stuff, let me know, I'll make you a deal you can't refuse.
Right, but your 486/586 motherboard was probably built at a time when there was multiple speeds of 486/586 CPUs available. So the board needed the multipliers since you had a lot of different options for CPUs you could put in there.DocClock aka MadClocker said:Socket 4 and no settings? I have a socket 3 "486/586" mainboard, and has multi's up to 4, and fsb's from 25 to 50mhz.
I ran an AMD K5-133 @150 on it for years..it is supposed to be 4x33, but I ran it at 3x50...I'll attach a pic of the silksceen settings so you can know what to look for.
Edit: sorry the pic is so small, but I could not get it to upload any larger
Yeah that's what I suspected. 75-200 used Socket 5 then Socket 7 added support for the MMX CPUs. Hard to believe Socket 4 only accepted 60 and 66MHz CPUs while Socket 5 accepted 75-200MHz CPUs, but I got to find that out first hand. Us early adopters really got screwed... ...but I learned my lesson early.larva said:The 60 and 66 MHz pentiums were the only of their kind. All further Pentiums (75/90/100/120/133/150/166/200) are a different socket. There was no reason for multipliers other than 1 on the P60-66 boards.