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AMD k6-III on Pcchips m560 v4.1
LS,
I put a K6-III 400 MHz 2,4 volt on a Pcchips m560 v4.1. Lowest voltage this board supplies = 2,5 volt, slightly too much, but not a real problem I guess. Its properly cooled for sure. Got 128 MB pc100 SDRAM plugged in. Settings jumpered to 6x66, so no overclock for now. Will try a higher FSB later. I flashed it with latest bios to recognize the K6. The system posts and identifies the processor as K6-300 @ 333 MHz. It let me boot from floppy and memtest86 reports K6-III @ 399 MHz. Its running for over an hour, no problems at all. So far so good, but it seems unstable when I try to install win98 from bootable CD. It crashes/hangs right after the checkdisk when it start copying the installation files to harddisk. Tried 2 different CDROM players, but same behaviour. Tried a WIN XP installation, but that hung also. I found a few successfull stories about this mobo/cpu combination on the net so I wonder what the problem is. Any suggestions about this setup? Thanks a lot, Mike. |
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Are you sure that the memory is OK?
"Alice in Chains" wrote in message ... LS, I put a K6-III 400 MHz 2,4 volt on a Pcchips m560 v4.1. Lowest voltage this board supplies = 2,5 volt, slightly too much, but not a real problem I guess. Its properly cooled for sure. Got 128 MB pc100 SDRAM plugged in. Settings jumpered to 6x66, so no overclock for now. Will try a higher FSB later. I flashed it with latest bios to recognize the K6. The system posts and identifies the processor as K6-300 @ 333 MHz. It let me boot from floppy and memtest86 reports K6-III @ 399 MHz. Its running for over an hour, no problems at all. So far so good, but it seems unstable when I try to install win98 from bootable CD. It crashes/hangs right after the checkdisk when it start copying the installation files to harddisk. Tried 2 different CDROM players, but same behaviour. Tried a WIN XP installation, but that hung also. I found a few successfull stories about this mobo/cpu combination on the net so I wonder what the problem is. Any suggestions about this setup? Thanks a lot, Mike. |
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I had a m571 that was very picky on memory type used.
try to copy the entire windows98 files to the HD and install from there "Dylan Christopherson" wrote in message ... | Are you sure that the memory is OK? | | | "Alice in Chains" wrote in message | ... | LS, | | I put a K6-III 400 MHz 2,4 volt on a Pcchips m560 v4.1. Lowest voltage | this | board supplies = 2,5 volt, slightly too much, but not a real problem I | guess. Its properly cooled for sure. Got 128 MB pc100 SDRAM plugged in. | | Settings jumpered to 6x66, so no overclock for now. Will try a higher FSB | later. | | I flashed it with latest bios to recognize the K6. | | The system posts and identifies the processor as K6-300 @ 333 MHz. It let | me | boot from floppy and memtest86 reports K6-III @ 399 MHz. Its running for | over an hour, no problems at all. | | So far so good, but it seems unstable when I try to install win98 from | bootable CD. It crashes/hangs right after the checkdisk when it start | copying the installation files to harddisk. | | Tried 2 different CDROM players, but same behaviour. | | Tried a WIN XP installation, but that hung also. | | I found a few successfull stories about this mobo/cpu combination on the | net | so I wonder what the problem is. | | | Any suggestions about this setup? | | | Thanks a lot, | | Mike. | | | | | |
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Dylan Christopherson wrote:
Are you sure that the memory is OK? I guess so. I got this pc with win95 installed, and that ran fine @ P166MMX. I changed the processor to this K6-III, and then I got a protection error when win95 starts. I thought that was normal, since old win95 had a known timing bug with fast processors. Instead of applying the win95 patch I just erased the HD and tried to install win98. And thats where I still am :-) Strange is that memtest86 checks out fine. Could it be the power the K6-III draws from the voltage regulators under full load? Maybe some particular BIOS settings needed? Thanks, Mike. |
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I kinda remember that to support the K6-III your voltage regulators need to
support above 12A load Also have you check the CPU temp? may be it was getting to hot, the K6-III can't use the old Pentium HS, it needs to be something larger "Alice in Chains" wrote in message ... Dylan Christopherson wrote: Are you sure that the memory is OK? I guess so. I got this pc with win95 installed, and that ran fine @ P166MMX. I changed the processor to this K6-III, and then I got a protection error when win95 starts. I thought that was normal, since old win95 had a known timing bug with fast processors. Instead of applying the win95 patch I just erased the HD and tried to install win98. And thats where I still am :-) Strange is that memtest86 checks out fine. Could it be the power the K6-III draws from the voltage regulators under full load? Maybe some particular BIOS settings needed? Thanks, Mike. |
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FSAA wrote:
I kinda remember that to support the K6-III your voltage regulators need to support above 12A load Also have you check the CPU temp? may be it was getting to hot, the K6-III can't use the old Pentium HS, it needs to be something larger Yup, it's properly cooled for sure. I got it running @ 4,5x75 = 337 MHz now. Anything higher makes it somewhat unstable. I guess its the voltage regulators. Thanks all folks! Mike. |
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