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The problem might not related with E34 or P08, I have a P08 with dual deutsche 400, install dual coppermine 550, boot but locked by bios with the same information of unsupported hardware; install dual katmai 500, succeed, only problem is my katmai is retail processor with 3pin fan, but original deut...

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Did you run the CTCM test from a DOS Boot Disk? Can you post the CPU MSR registers? Thanks. Oh, I have solved that problem long ago, just review the past post and share my results. that pc not available now. although some review or advertise about the performance of chipset for K6-2,showed that ALi...

You have some problems : 1) Shared-memory VGA eating up parts of your memory and slowing memory transfer rate down. 2) L2-Cache problem - maybe it's a problem or your board is able to cache 128MB. Uncahced RAM is still way faster than swapping on HDD. Info from Asus: 512KB L2 = 64MB, 1MB L2 = 128MB...

Thanks a lot for Apple_Rom,
I modified the bios, it success by pass the CPU detection,
before modify, debug card show 0d, then stop at 0E,
after modify,debug card pass 0E, then 31, and so on.
Will try more and email the modified bios to Jan for archive,
thanks a lot

ie: do you have another non-Intel processor somewhere? something like a Cyrix, Rise or IDT/Centaur cpu? if so please do run a test if it boots up with one of those. my suggestion: look for a cpuid instruction. cpuid with EAX=0 returns the vendor id in EBX-ECX-EDX. if it's not GenuineIntel (or rathe...

edwin wrote:The only bios ever released by Intel was the 03 version. So unless we get hold of an 02 backup, Jan will have to patch in K6 support...

just found a 02 bios,
http://forum.rom.by/topic9813.html
however,the download link is expired,
his board burnt,
even that user seems deleted by forum.rom.by

KachiWachi wrote:OK.

So you are trying to install a K6-2 on this machine, and the CPU is not being recognized...correct?

Which exact K6-2?

Thanks.

thanks, the most common k6-2-400, cxt core, afx 2.2v.

I have upload the extracted 1.00.03.YM1 bios from intel original exe file to
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home5/yang0072/YM430TX.003

I'm trying to understand what you mean by "locked". Can you elaborate please? Thanks. Thanks a lot for your guidence, After the debug card passed "0d" for graphic, The screen only showes 3 rows, "Award Modular BIOS Version 1.00.03.YM1 Copyright (C) 1984-95, Award Software, Inc. Intel Corporation YM...

need help to unlock intel ym430tx award 4.51 bios. This board use award 4.51 bios, I upgrade the bios from BIOS 1.00.02.YM1 to 1.00.03.YM1. http://downloadmirror.intel.com/529/eng/10003ym1.exe The k6-2 processor were locked, pc hangs at the first screen after showed Intel Corporation YM430TX Motherb...

it did not recognise my 20g hdd.
so i use a 2g as primary to install windows.
20g as slave for storage.

AP53 Rev 3.x should use 3.x Bios so this should be your Bios: ftp://ftp.aopen.com.tw/pub/bios/ap53/ap53r3c0.exe But it may not change the sluggy system performance as it seems to be of similar date as your 2C0 Bios. It's very sad to see a good old i430HX board supporting 2.0 VCore but not receiving...

Hi. It is really sad that some people do not understand the meaning of the phrase: " to read and understand " / " reading and understanding ". :D It is sad that some people cannot and want not to read at all. :D Facts: + BNOBTC means B org N umber O ne's B IOS T ool C ollection . + The size of BNOB...

I have a Aopen AP53 rev3.3,i430HX, socket 7,use AMI win bios, support as low as 2.0V, so I upgrade from PMMX200 to K6-2-400 I download the newest bios, ftp://ftp.aopen.com.tw/pub/bios/ap53/ap53r3c0.exe ftp://ftp.aopen.com.tw/pub/bios/ap53/readme.txt can't recognize K6-2-400,only show K5-133, I use a...