I've 'done' it!...(almost)

[Treker]

Hey Guys,

After a guiding hand from the guys over at ICS I've confirmed my theory about my Motherboard.


As most of you know I have an old system and am to damn cheap to by a new board

As I stated in my powerleap review, I am currently limited to 60/66mhz FSB, however belive that if I remove the resistor on the latched input pins for 'REF2' I should be able to jump directly to 83.3mhz.. SWEET

As soon as I can prove this, I will be writing another review with photos, diagrams and directions, perhaps we can adapt this to other Intel boards, mine has an ICS 9147-01 chip on this Intel AN430TX Board.

Well I'm off to find a magnifying glass and get my trusty soldering iron..

Wish me Luck if you would

-Treker

 

[Mr B]

Good luck, man, good luck.

I'm leery as heck of attacking my mb with a soldering iron.

I got a pair of Soyo 6BA+III mb's a while ago. One does nothing...the drives power up, but no boot. The other one works, but has bad PS/2 ports....I keep thinking of trying to de-solder the PS/2 ports and swapping them, board to board, giving my one fully working one. I don't trust my soldering skills that much, though.

I bought a USB keyboard instead.......=) There's a setting in the BIOS to support one. Speaking of BIOS...it's not that on the dead one. I swapped out the BIOS chips. Any ideas on what might be the problem with the mb that doesn't boot??

Mr B

 

[Treker]

Mr B (Mar 22, 2001 06:24 a.m.):
Good luck, man, good luck.

I'm leery as heck of attacking my mb with a soldering iron.

I got a pair of Soyo 6BA+III mb's a while ago. One does nothing...the drives power up, but no boot. The other one works, but has bad PS/2 ports....I keep thinking of trying to de-solder the PS/2 ports and swapping them, board to board, giving my one fully working one. I don't trust my soldering skills that much, though.

I bought a USB keyboard instead.......=) There's a setting in the BIOS to support one. Speaking of BIOS...it's not that on the dead one. I swapped out the BIOS chips. Any ideas on what might be the problem with the mb that doesn't boot??

Mr B

Solding if very easy as long as you have a good sharp tip, steady hand, and a nice solder pump to suck away the solder before it drys somewhere else!.

As far as your board goes, I have no actual experience on it, but I would need more info as to what lead to its not working to build a thesis.

Oh, and I'm learning more about my ICS clock chip hack... getting VERY VERY interesting thats all I can say at the moment, my thanks to ICS for putting up with me!

-Trek

 

[Treker]

Hey Guys!,

As more information is comming into light I'd like to add on to what I know so far.

Theroiticaly if I remove the resistor from the following traces leading to theses pins I will optain the listed FSB.

Pin 1 - FS2/REF2===== 83.3mhz
Pin 2 - FS1/REF1=====75.0mhz

Still waiting on confirmation from the Pin 2 mod, the pin 1 mod has been confirmed by ICS, THANKS GUYS!

-Trek