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K6-2 Problem Can I take you back in time?
Hi, a little off topic but I'm hoping somebody can give me some
advice. With you overclockers tweaking these over the years you're probably the best people to ask was my thought! I've just brought my old PC back from the dead. It had win98 installed along with some old programs and doc files that I didn't want to wipe. So I took a chance and just installed a S/H Jetway 531CF mobo that came with a K6-2 500 3D. I pulled the old mobo out, fitted the Jetway one, booted up, and apart from a few minor problems with some drivers, my old system is back up and running! The BIOS was the same just a later version (AWARD 4.51). Now, nearly all is well and I can back up some of the files and programs that I wanted off this system. But now it's working again I may as well get it working properly and smoothly and keep it just in case as a spare! So I've just couple of minor issues to do with the K6-2. On boot-up when I go into the BIOS it's showing the old CPUID which is Cyrex 6X86. Although when first installed it did show the K6-2 and the relevant settings. On the memory test at boot-up it shows as the K6 as well as in windows sys/info it shows also shows as K6-2. It's just in the BIOS CPUID that the K6 and its settings seem to have got lost! Any ideas on a solution? It does seem to run a little slower than I would have expected in windows, about the same as the old Cyrex did, although the test I've done in DOS show good results from the K6-2. So I'm hoping that finding the solution to this will help me to fix that. Apart from that the only other problem is that the system seems to scrub/corrupt the autoexec.bat on start-up which may or may not be related. I've not done as yet a full reinstall of windows as the CD may have been used as a coaster too many times over the past few years and I remember, because of scratches, some of the cabs are corrupt! So I'm hoping to sort out these few problems with out having to do any sort of reinstall of windows if possible! Anyway, big thanks if you can help me with this or direct me to a forum, newsgroup or web-site where I may find some info. Danny |
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Danny wrote:
Hi, a little off topic but I'm hoping somebody can give me some advice. With you overclockers tweaking these over the years you're probably the best people to ask was my thought! I've just brought my old PC back from the dead. It had win98 installed along with some old programs and doc files that I didn't want to wipe. So I took a chance and just installed a S/H Jetway 531CF mobo that came with a K6-2 500 3D. I pulled the old mobo out, fitted the Jetway one, booted up, and apart from a few minor problems with some drivers, my old system is back up and running! The BIOS was the same just a later version (AWARD 4.51). Now, nearly all is well and I can back up some of the files and programs that I wanted off this system. But now it's working again I may as well get it working properly and smoothly and keep it just in case as a spare! So I've just couple of minor issues to do with the K6-2. On boot-up when I go into the BIOS it's showing the old CPUID which is Cyrex 6X86. Although when first installed it did show the K6-2 and the relevant settings. On the memory test at boot-up it shows as the K6 as well as in windows sys/info it shows also shows as K6-2. It's just in the BIOS CPUID that the K6 and its settings seem to have got lost! Any ideas on a solution? It does seem to run a little slower than I would have expected in windows, about the same as the old Cyrex did, although the test I've done in DOS show good results from the K6-2. So I'm hoping that finding the solution to this will help me to fix that. Apart from that the only other problem is that the system seems to scrub/corrupt the autoexec.bat on start-up which may or may not be related. I've not done as yet a full reinstall of windows as the CD may have been used as a coaster too many times over the past few years and I remember, because of scratches, some of the cabs are corrupt! So I'm hoping to sort out these few problems with out having to do any sort of reinstall of windows if possible! Anyway, big thanks if you can help me with this or direct me to a forum, newsgroup or web-site where I may find some info. Danny IIRC there was an update patch that you had to install for AMD CPU's to function correctly running WIN95. Maybe this also applied to WIN98? I think it was fixed by WIN98SE. Also you could go to the board manufacturer's web site (or just Google) and check for bios updates. -- FRH |
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Danny wrote:
[...] On boot-up when I go into the BIOS it's showing the old CPUID which is Cyrex 6X86. Although when first installed it did show the K6-2 and the relevant settings. On the memory test at boot-up it shows as the K6 as well as in windows sys/info it shows also shows as K6-2. It's just in the BIOS CPUID that the K6 and its settings seem to have got lost! Any ideas on a solution? I don't think it matters too much if it shows the wrong name in the BIOS setup screen (as long as it displays the correct name during POST), but you could always try wiping the CMOS or updating the BIOS. It does seem to run a little slower than I would have expected in windows, about the same as the old Cyrex did, although the test I've done in DOS show good results from the K6-2. So I'm hoping that finding the solution to this will help me to fix that. I had/have a K6-2/400 on a Jetway 530BF, which is based on the same chipset. One thing you'll want to do (if you haven't already done it) is grab the SiS IDE driver from the Jetway site: http://www.jetway.com.tw/evisn/downl...ndex-2.htm#530 Otherwise the drives run in PIO mode (=slows down the whole system big time). You may also want to check out this page: http://www.stud.fernuni-hagen.de/q39...wto/cache.html with regard to whether you've got too much RAM in your system or not. [...] I've not done as yet a full reinstall of windows as the CD may have been used as a coaster too many times over the past few years and I remember, because of scratches, some of the cabs are corrupt! I'm sure there's a few sites on the web with *cough* backups of the Win98 CABs if you need them [...] -- Michael Brown www.emboss.co.nz : OOS/RSI software and more Add michael@ to emboss.co.nz ---+--- My inbox is always open |
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"Danny" wrote in message ... Hi, a little off topic but I'm hoping somebody can give me some advice. With you overclockers tweaking these over the years you're probably the best people to ask was my thought! I've just brought my old PC back from the dead. It had win98 installed along with some old programs and doc files that I didn't want to wipe. So I took a chance and just installed a S/H Jetway 531CF mobo that came with a K6-2 500 3D. I pulled the old mobo out, fitted the Jetway one, booted up, and apart from a few minor problems with some drivers, my old system is back up and running! The BIOS was the same just a later version (AWARD 4.51). Now, nearly all is well and I can back up some of the files and programs that I wanted off this system. But now it's working again I may as well get it working properly and smoothly and keep it just in case as a spare! So I've just couple of minor issues to do with the K6-2. On boot-up when I go into the BIOS it's showing the old CPUID which is Cyrex 6X86. Although when first installed it did show the K6-2 and the relevant settings. On the memory test at boot-up it shows as the K6 as well as in windows sys/info it shows also shows as K6-2. It's just in the BIOS CPUID that the K6 and its settings seem to have got lost! Any ideas on a solution? It does seem to run a little slower than I would have expected in windows, about the same as the old Cyrex did, although the test I've done in DOS show good results from the K6-2. So I'm hoping that finding the solution to this will help me to fix that. Change multiplier to 5.0 and FSB to 100, if you have PC100/PC133 RAM. There should be charts printed on the MB somewhere. Check your CPU voltage, I think it should be 2.1V standard, Apart from that the only other problem is that the system seems to scrub/corrupt the autoexec.bat on start-up which may or may not be related. I've not done as yet a full reinstall of windows as the CD may have been used as a coaster too many times over the past few years and I remember, because of scratches, some of the cabs are corrupt! So I'm hoping to sort out these few problems with out having to do any sort of reinstall of windows if possible! Anyway, big thanks if you can help me with this or direct me to a forum, newsgroup or web-site where I may find some info. Dave |
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