K6-2/400 on Asus VX97 rev.1.01 MoBo
Chris Gajzler
This is great ng, I try to read it quite often (but not often enough)
hence my question :
I would like to extend the life of my friend mobo with amd.
Is it possible to run k6-2/400 on this MoBo?
The voltage selector goes down to 2.5v and latest bios I could find is
0204 final on asus site in Germany. I am particularly scared of 2.5v on
AFR chip (2.2v) - I will not overclock. Any suggestions are welcome or
email me directly.
Many thanks
Chris Gajzler
Martin Heimes
>
> Is it possible to run k6-2/400 on this MoBo?
> The voltage selector goes down to 2.5v and latest bios I could find is
> 0204 final on asus site in Germany. I am particularly scared of 2.5v on
> AFR chip (2.2v) - I will not overclock.
Don't know much about your friends board, but as far as I know it has a
switching regulator like mine T2P4S. You could try combinations of the
voltage selector jumpers to get the wanted 2,2V (yes, 2,5V will be too
much for a 2,2V CPU). Measuring is done w/o CPU (and disconnect the
power supply to the drives).
100Ohm resistors between
VCC2 and VSS - measure here.
VCC3 and VSS - (3,3V)
VCC2DET and VSS.
and close the socket.
not all VCC2 VCC3 VSS pins do have to be used by the boards
manufacturer, try!
power off when setting or changing the resistors or voltage regulator
jumpers.
there is a map of the socket (take care, from *bottom* view!):
http://www.heise.de/ct/Redaktion/as/sockel7.htm
a foto as example (should go into one line):
http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/florian.zschocke/t2p4sup/Voltage/messen/im_foto/im_foto.html
the (german) page from where I got my information:
http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/florian.zschocke/t2p4sup/Voltage/messen/messen.html
if BIOS doesn't initialize the K6 correctly, it can be done after
booting with the setk6 utility e.g.
set FSB to 66MHz, K6-400 and above interpret 2x = 6x
go for K6-III if you still can do, it's on-chip level2 cache allows
caching more than 64MB and the performance is much better than with
K6-2.
good luck
--
Martin Heimes
correct this to reply via email
m dot heimes at zv-irz dot de
Timo Erkkilä
Chris Gajzler wrote in the message <39849BA9...@global.co.za>...
>Hi Everyone.
>This is great ng, I try to read it quite often (but not often enough)
>hence my question :
>I would like to extend the life of my friend mobo with amd.
>The voltage selector goes down to 2.5v and latest bios I could find is
>0204 final on asus site in Germany. I am particularly scared of 2.5v on
>email me directly.
>Many thanks
>Chris Gajzler
>
Hi Martin,
I just bought recently a K6-2/500 (cxt) for my VX97 (don't know the rev.
though)
and I have been quite satisfied with the upgrade.
I run the processor at 400 MHz (6x66) but I have thought to try 6x75 or
6x83 later.
The voltage is the proper 2.2 volts (thanks to David T. for the list of
undocumented settings :)
I also use set6k version 1.3 for enabling write allocation and combining
since the
latest bios does not recognize k6-2.
It's been working nicely without any problems so far.
By the way, does anybody know the setting for VX97 for the 83 MHz bus
speed?
--Timo Erkkilä
Ps. Here's the list of voltage settings I mentioned:
>> I just solved the problem!!!! VX-97 and
>>TX97 and TX97-e (someone confirm the tx's as
>> I only have a vx97) supports all
>>voltages 2.0 - 3.5 in 0.1 volt increments. The may
>> include any Asus board with an HIP6008
>>voltage regulator.
>>
>> The vid block connected to HIP6008
>>regulator looks like:
>>
>> vid2 3 x 2
>> vid1 x x 1
>> vid0 x x 0
>>
>> And the voltages:
>> 2.0 No jumpers
>> 2.1 vid0 1-2 (no other jumpers needed)
>> 2.2 vid1 1-2
>> 2.3 vid0 1-2, vid1 1-2
>> 2.4 vid2 1-2
>> 2.5 vid0 1-2, vid2 1-2
>> 2.6 vid1 1-2, vid2 1-2
>> 2.7 vid0 1-2, vid1 1-2, vid2 1-2
>> 2.8 short the 3 to vid1:3 (ie: vid2:3 to
>>vid1:3)
>> 2.9 short 3 (see 2.8), vid0 1-2
>> 3.0 short 3, vid1 1-2
>> 3.1 short 3, vid0 1-2, vid1 1-2
>> 3.2 short 3, vid2 1-2
>> 3.3 short 3, vid0 1-2, vid2 1-2
>> 3.4 short 3, vid1 1-2, vid2 1-2
>> 3.5 short 3, vid1 1-2, vid2 1-2, vid3
>>1-2
>>
>> Specs on the HIP6008 found at
>>www.intersil.com.
>> Enjoy! The world of vx97 overclocking is
>>open to the k6-2's now! Notice that Steve's
>> solution below for 2.5V included a
>>jumper on vid1 2- 3. It is optional equipment.
>>