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ajzchips
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You haven't mentioned trying a new power supply...
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Ohh.. ok.
I suggested real proprietary, a friend, (I'm only mantainer) to change power supply, but, due to complexity of operation, he didn't change it yet. I'm still waiting he decides to do this substitution.

Meanwhile, I found this post that I didn't see.

Please, do you confirm that i440LX=i440EX ??
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ajzchips
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They are not exactly the same. Let's say that the EX is a castrated LX.
Maximum RAM support is reduced, and maximum supported DIMM slots too, apart from other "castrations".
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Most probably no ECC support and less PCI slots too. But these chipsets are 100% compatible from the software point of view - it's impossible to detect if you have LX or EX (the same thing for BX/ZX - with the exception that ZX is officially 66MHz only although runs fine even over 100MHz on boards that support that).
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ajzchips
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ZX officially 66? http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/440zx/
Doesn't look like it...
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Sorry, that was ZX-66 :oops:
But - do you see "ATA/66 HDD support in UDMA mode 2" on the Intel page? That's BS :!: The PIIX4E supports UDMA2 which is UDMA/33.
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ajzchips
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But it does correctly specify:
Can interface with ATA/66 HDD in UDMA mode 2: Takes advantage of increased spindle rates, higher densities, and disk caching enhancements of the latest Hard Disk Drives operating in UDMA mode 2.
...says "can interface", not "operate at"...
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Nice trick. Someting like: "Buy our new ISA IDE controller. It can interface all new drives upto UATA/133 and use 48-bit LBA for HDDs over 128GB. Even in 286 machine. You need only BIOS update :lol: "
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Ok, thanks to all. You're a bible page.
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