Recent content by ewells55

Walter, I haven't posted here in a while but I do check in once in a while to see what is going on. Thanks for the update on Jan's work. It looks like it is pretty involved. I have the PayPal account ready to shoot something his way when he's finished..... Elton

I checked and my machine also posts the processor as a K5. I'm willing to contribute to the BIOS patch as well. Count me in. Elton

What's up guys? I finally got back in town after a hectic two weeks. I wasted no time buying one of those K6-IIIE+ 400s for my desktop. It should be here in a couple of days. I will try it first in my Satellite before installing it permanently in my desktop. I plan to overclock it to 600...

Walter, Have you bought your processors yet or are you shopping? What did you decide to get for each? I am looking for one for my desktop. I have bid on several on eBay but they went for too much. I am going to be patient and get it for the price I want. The processor I get depends on the...

I played with my laptop last night and got it to run at 600MHz with no problem. I took my Kirby and put the hose up to the fan outlet and then jumped the processor up to 600 just to see what would happen (I have a picture to prove it). It ran great for over thirty minutes but the noise drove...

Walter, my desktop has a DFI K6BV3+/66 w/2 mb pipeline burst cache. I have maxed out the memory (thanks to good bidding on ebay) at 768 mb. The voltage range is very broad, 3.5V max. down to 1.3V min. The FSB is limited, however, to 100 MHz. The board is designed for K6 2+/3+ processors and...

Walter, I was researching last night and stumbled on something you may be able to use. A Linux guy has written a program similar to Central Tweaking Unit that allows Linux users to up the clock speed and enable write allocation. This program is written for K6 2+/3+ processors only. He goes...

OK, I'm convinced that it is a cooling problem. I will go to work on that. I checked out a book from the local library that has a very good section on overclocking. There are some interesting charts in there that show the overclockability of just about every processor out there and what the...

So you are saying that my whole problem at this point is heat? Does it get hot that quickly? It seems to me that I could at least get through the startup process before it shuts down. I'll take a look at what I can do with the cooling. How did your modification work? Have you been able to...

Repo Man: I tried the chip in my desktop and easily got to 600 MHz just like you said. I did have to bump it up to 2.1 volts though. But it runs great. I ran it for several hours with no problems and the CPU temp never exceeded 91F. I am considering buying the same K6 III+ chip you bought...

Trying to overclock to 600 MHz was a big crash and burn. I tried it first by changing the jumpers. The unit would not even boot. It crashes shortly past the Win98 welcome screen. At first I got general protection faults and then all kinds of error messages. I tried bringing it up in safe...

Walter, I am interested in hearing more about Linux on your laptop. I am tired of the instability of Win98. I tried Win2000 but I had driver issues and went back to Win98. I tired Linux back in December but again had driver issues. I started with Knoppix live which I really like a lot. I...

Repo man, I'm interested in what you did with your cooling setup. You said that you "removed the thermal pad, and used AS-5 instead." I started to remove the thermal pad because it tore in several places but I didn't know what to use in it's place so I put it back as best I could. What is...

I got my K6-2+ 533MHz chip in yesterday and didn't waste any time playing with it. The first thing I did was install it in a Super socket 7 desktop I have because I am considering an upgrade for it as well. This motherboard is a DFI K6BV3+/66 with 768 mb RAM. The new chip performed well at...

Thanks repo man. I would have never figured this out. I got inside and accessed the processor. My new chip hasn't come in yet but I expect it any day. I will just leave everything apart until I get it. I can see the dip switches there by the processor. Now the pictures Walter posted make...