Re: PWS333i+ upgrades

From: Richard Tomkins (tomkinsr_at_istop.com)
Date: 08/04/04

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    I had an Intel Multia and I put a 450Mhz K6-2 in it using an adapter socket
    thing. I cut a hole in the top of the case for the fan.

    It worked very well, but the system does not like to run Windows 2000,
    something odd in the drives and stuff.

    One thing to be cautious on is when you add memory. Don't just throw all you
    can into a box, cause on many of the early Digital PC's they maxed out at
    128MB or 256MB and then wrapped around, so anything more than what is was
    designed for will become a constantly crashing machine.

    rtt

    <ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
    news:410ed978.15427880@news.charter.net...
    > The 333i+, based on the 440LX chipset, is limited to CPUs which run at
    66MHz
    > front-side bus. The fastest ever 66MHz FSB CPU is the 766MHz Celeron, a
    Socket
    > 370 beast. But if the 333i+ BIOS gets in the way, well, then the 333s are
    it.
    >
    > I ran into similar difficulties with Intel's (!) 333MHz Pentium Pro
    OverDrive
    > installed in a Celebris 6200. It just did not work right.
    >
    > I can only suspect that the late Phoenix BIOSes used in the ivory white
    products
    > suffered from various limitations and defects which were never overcome so
    late
    > in the life of an autonomous DEC. This is more than a suspicion. It's
    fact.
    > The Celebris 6200 was unable to use the full capacity of an 8.4GB IDE
    drive, and
    > required manual settings for cylinders, heads (max of 15) and
    sectors/track to
    > use 8GB. And Compaq only hastened the demise of anything with a DEC label
    on
    > it.
    >
    > If you really want to push the Multia, running the risk of burning out
    some
    > motherboard component or other, I'm fairly sure that a genuine AMD K6-2
    rated at
    > 400MHz can be coaxed to run at full rated speed with the right jumper
    settings.
    > I've managed to achieve this on some other Socket 7 motherboards... Ben
    Myers
    >
    > On 2 Aug 2004 13:53:41 -0700, jordan@ccs4vms.com (Rich Jordan) wrote:
    >
    > >Jeff Monasch <monasch-x@comcast.net> wrote in message
    news:<410d7839$1@usenet01.boi.hp.com>...
    > >> Don't bother with the powerleap. My 400i2 would not work with it in
    > >> single cpu mode. It actually would boot in about an hour and a half!!!!
    > >>
    > >> Jeff
    > >>
    > >
    > >Thanks for the info. Were you trying to use a P3 or a Celeron?
    > >P'leap was very noncommittal when I asked them about an upgrade for
    > >the 333i+, single or dual, but I did have good luck with a Powerleap
    > >MMX in a Multia Pentium (took it to 333MHz with a K6-2) so it was
    > >worth the call. It just isn't worth the money to improve this one; I
    > >was hoping some free stuff I got would do the job. Powerleap just
    > >wants too much money.
    > >
    > >I'd assume you can take your box to P2-450 (x2), but since the p'leap
    > >didn't work, thats probably as far as you can go. Too bad; I prefer
    > >seeing the digital logo when I have to play with intel boxes, but
    > >boxes that old are edgy on usability except with more efficient OS's
    > >(hence linux).
    > >
    > >For now I just have to decide which linux distro is worth trying out.
    > >
    > >Rich
    >

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