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David Maynard wrote:
LX is a 66 Mhz FSB chipset and although it's theoretically capable of being clocked at 100Mhz FSB I don't know of any motherboards that did it. I was given an old AT Atrend 6310M (ATC6310M) LX mobo in a pile of junk. It's such an early model that it didn't even have a retaining mechanism for the CPU, just a slot. (Remember some of the early ones?) It has a jumper for 66/100MHz FSB so I fitted a retaining mechanism (it has holes for one) and a PII450. To my surprise it worked seemingly perfectly at 450MHz. However when the screensaver and monitor power-down kicked in it wouldn't wake up again and had to be rebooted. I couldn't remedy it at the time and put it away for a while. When I tried to tackle it again a couple months later it wouldn't even boot. I spent a couple of hours fiddling with it and have since given up. shrug It was only spare parts thrown together anyway, I'd just figured it may have made a semi-useful donation to some PC-less person if I could have got it running OK. -- ~misfit~ |
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~misfit~ wrote:
David Maynard wrote: LX is a 66 Mhz FSB chipset and although it's theoretically capable of being clocked at 100Mhz FSB I don't know of any motherboards that did it. I was given an old AT Atrend 6310M (ATC6310M) LX mobo in a pile of junk. It's such an early model that it didn't even have a retaining mechanism for the CPU, just a slot. (Remember some of the early ones?) It has a jumper for 66/100MHz FSB Well, no kidding? Now I know of one so I fitted a retaining mechanism (it has holes for one) and a PII450. To my surprise it worked seemingly perfectly at 450MHz. However when the screensaver and monitor power-down kicked in it wouldn't wake up again and had to be rebooted. I couldn't remedy it at the time and put it away for a while. When I tried to tackle it again a couple months later it wouldn't even boot. I spent a couple of hours fiddling with it and have since given up. shrug Sounds like one of those only at midnight on tuesdays with a full moon kind of thing. It was only spare parts thrown together anyway, I'd just figured it may have made a semi-useful donation to some PC-less person if I could have got it running OK. -- ~misfit~ |
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David Maynard wrote:
~misfit~ wrote: I was given an old AT Atrend 6310M (ATC6310M) LX mobo in a pile of junk. It's such an early model that it didn't even have a retaining mechanism for the CPU, just a slot. (Remember some of the early ones?) It has a jumper for 66/100MHz FSB Well, no kidding? Now I know of one Yeah. I was quite surprised. Firstly at managing to find a manual to download, then at the fact that an LX board could be clocked to 100MHz FSB. I was under the impression that the BX was the first 100MHZ chipset. As the only PII CPUs I have are a 233 and a 450 it was a no-brainer to put the 450 in. I ran prime95 and SETI with it when it was running and it went faultlessly, *until* the power-saving turned off the monitor. I thought I'd finally found a board that might be worth putting in this really well-made full tower AT case I have here. Very nice case, has a door over the drives, an LED display for CPU speed (set manually) and built like a brick outhouse. Must have cost a fortune new, I bought it with a SCSI-based 50Mhz 486 system in it and 256MB (2 x 128) of 72-pin RAM for $10. Looks like it's time to dump it. Sounds like one of those only at midnight on tuesdays with a full moon kind of thing. Yep, it was indeed. -- ~misfit~ |
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~misfit~ wrote:
David Maynard wrote: ~misfit~ wrote: I was given an old AT Atrend 6310M (ATC6310M) LX mobo in a pile of junk. It's such an early model that it didn't even have a retaining mechanism for the CPU, just a slot. (Remember some of the early ones?) It has a jumper for 66/100MHz FSB Well, no kidding? Now I know of one Yeah. I was quite surprised. Firstly at managing to find a manual to download, then at the fact that an LX board could be clocked to 100MHz FSB. I was under the impression that the BX was the first 100MHZ chipset. Your impression was right, 'officially'. As I said, I've never seen an LX that could run 100 Mhz FSB. I've only read that it was supposedly 'capable' of it (but Intel never supported it or said it could). As the only PII CPUs I have are a 233 and a 450 it was a no-brainer to put the 450 in. I ran prime95 and SETI with it when it was running and it went faultlessly, *until* the power-saving turned off the monitor. I thought I'd finally found a board that might be worth putting in this really well-made full tower AT case I have here. Very nice case, has a door over the drives, an LED display for CPU speed (set manually) and built like a brick outhouse. Must have cost a fortune new, I bought it with a SCSI-based 50Mhz 486 system in it and 256MB (2 x 128) of 72-pin RAM for $10. Looks like it's time to dump it. Sounds like one of those only at midnight on tuesdays with a full moon kind of thing. Yep, it was indeed. -- ~misfit~ |
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David Maynard wrote:
~misfit~ wrote: David Maynard wrote: ~misfit~ wrote: I was given an old AT Atrend 6310M (ATC6310M) LX mobo in a pile of junk. It's such an early model that it didn't even have a retaining mechanism for the CPU, just a slot. (Remember some of the early ones?) It has a jumper for 66/100MHz FSB Well, no kidding? Now I know of one Yeah. I was quite surprised. Firstly at managing to find a manual to download, then at the fact that an LX board could be clocked to 100MHz FSB. I was under the impression that the BX was the first 100MHZ chipset. Your impression was right, 'officially'. As I said, I've never seen an LX that could run 100 Mhz FSB. I've only read that it was supposedly 'capable' of it (but Intel never supported it or said it could). D'oh! Now I feel like an idiot. I've just checked and it's ZX chipset. My apologies. -- ~misfit~ |
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~misfit~ wrote:
David Maynard wrote: ~misfit~ wrote: David Maynard wrote: ~misfit~ wrote: I was given an old AT Atrend 6310M (ATC6310M) LX mobo in a pile of junk. It's such an early model that it didn't even have a retaining mechanism for the CPU, just a slot. (Remember some of the early ones?) It has a jumper for 66/100MHz FSB Well, no kidding? Now I know of one Yeah. I was quite surprised. Firstly at managing to find a manual to download, then at the fact that an LX board could be clocked to 100MHz FSB. I was under the impression that the BX was the first 100MHZ chipset. Your impression was right, 'officially'. As I said, I've never seen an LX that could run 100 Mhz FSB. I've only read that it was supposedly 'capable' of it (but Intel never supported it or said it could). D'oh! Now I feel like an idiot. I've just checked and it's ZX chipset. My apologies. -- ~misfit~ Oh well, just one little letter off. OTOH, there are only TWO. hehe |
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David Maynard wrote:
~misfit~ wrote: David Maynard wrote: As I said, I've never seen an LX that could run 100 Mhz FSB. I've only read that it was supposedly 'capable' of it (but Intel never supported it or said it could). D'oh! Now I feel like an idiot. I've just checked and it's ZX chipset. My apologies. Oh well, just one little letter off. OTOH, there are only TWO. hehe LOL, only 50% right. I know next-to-nothing about the ZX chipset. In fact I didn't know it existed. I just saw that it was Slot 1 and not BX and thought "LX". Must be getting old. :-) -- ~misfit~ |
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~misfit~ wrote:
David Maynard wrote: ~misfit~ wrote: David Maynard wrote: As I said, I've never seen an LX that could run 100 Mhz FSB. I've only read that it was supposedly 'capable' of it (but Intel never supported it or said it could). D'oh! Now I feel like an idiot. I've just checked and it's ZX chipset. My apologies. Oh well, just one little letter off. OTOH, there are only TWO. hehe LOL, only 50% right. I know next-to-nothing about the ZX chipset. In fact I didn't know it existed. I just saw that it was Slot 1 and not BX and thought "LX". Must be getting old. :-) -- ~misfit~ The ZX is essentially a slightly skinnied BX chipset, like 2 memory slots instead of 3 (4 if buffered) for the BX. |
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"David Maynard" kirjoitti viestissä
... ~misfit~ wrote: David Maynard wrote: .... LOL, only 50% right. I know next-to-nothing about the ZX chipset. In fact I didn't know it existed. I just saw that it was Slot 1 and not BX and thought "LX". Must be getting old. :-) -- ~misfit~ The ZX is essentially a slightly skinnied BX chipset, like 2 memory slots instead of 3 (4 if buffered) for the BX. And the official max memory amount for ZX is 256MB instead of 768 for BX. However, e.g. Abit has manufactured a ZX board (ZM6 it was?) where you can have more. The ZM6 (if it was called that) has three slots but there were some rules what kind of sticks you could use in which slots. Can't remember the fitting rules any more, though. -- gt |
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GinTonix wrote:
"David Maynard" kirjoitti viestissä ... ~misfit~ wrote: David Maynard wrote: ... LOL, only 50% right. I know next-to-nothing about the ZX chipset. In fact I didn't know it existed. I just saw that it was Slot 1 and not BX and thought "LX". Must be getting old. :-) -- ~misfit~ The ZX is essentially a slightly skinnied BX chipset, like 2 memory slots instead of 3 (4 if buffered) for the BX. And the official max memory amount for ZX is 256MB instead of 768 for BX. However, e.g. Abit has manufactured a ZX board (ZM6 it was?) where you can have more. The ZM6 (if it was called that) has three slots but there were some rules what kind of sticks you could use in which slots. Can't remember the fitting rules any more, though. The third slot could only have a single-sided module in it. At least according to the bit I found out about ZX after realising my faux pas. -- ~misfit~ |
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