
Search found 9 matches
- Wed Sep 21, 2011 3:40 pm
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: What HDD manager to skip the BIOS restriction in HDD size?
- Replies: 8
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- Fri Sep 16, 2011 9:18 am
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: What HDD manager to skip the BIOS restriction in HDD size?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11428
Sometimes it is possible to install the OS on a small partition in the beginning of the harddrive. Later when you have the OS up & running you can make a second partition covering the rest of the disk that you only access from within the OS. This way you avoid the problems associated with overlay pr...
- Tue Jul 12, 2011 5:58 am
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: Pentium 266 Tillamook on MVP3 board?
- Replies: 15
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I was looking thru some old documentation I have downloaded some time ago when I happened to to come across a paper titled "Mobile Pentium® Processor with MMX Technology on 0.25 Micron System Design Considerations". It describes what changes that are needed to adapt systems designed for Pentium MMX ...
- Thu Jun 09, 2011 5:05 pm
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: Pentium 266 Tillamook on MVP3 board?
- Replies: 15
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I got my hands on a QDI MVP3-based board a few days ago and today I decided to test one of my Tillamook CPUs with it. This board could actually boot with the Tillamook CPU installed, but to get past the memory test & BIOS initialization a had to disable the L2 cache. Running the CPU at 400Mhz seems ...
- Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:32 am
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: no 133mhz bus on PCCHips M598 sis530 version 5 no onboard
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8730
- Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:23 am
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: Pentium 266 Tillamook on MVP3 board?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 23089
Actually at first my two 430TX motherboards had old BIOSes that did not recognize the Tillmook (the CPU was treated as an ordinary Pentium MMX CPU). The Tillmook seemed to work just fine despite that. I have also got the Tillmook to work on one 430HX based motherboard. For some reason this board aut...
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 6:48 pm
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: Pentium 266 Tillamook on MVP3 board?
- Replies: 15
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Pentium 266 Tillamook on MVP3 board?
Does anybody know if it is possible to get a Pentium 266 Tillamook to run on a Epox MVP3C2 or MVP3G2 board? I have tried booting with these CPUs, but I cannot seem to get it to work. The CPUs work just fine on i430TX boards, but the MVP3 doesn't seem to like them. Has anybody got any ideas of how I ...
- Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:13 pm
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: Building a 24hours 365 Day NAS with GA-5AX and which CPU?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8269
- Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:34 pm
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: Building a 24hours 365 Day NAS with GA-5AX and which CPU?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8269