see below, plz.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Woyciesjes" <DAW(a)yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Cc: "'Jeff Hellige'" <jhellige(a)earthlink.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 7:54 AM
Subject: RE: Looking for documentation/info
! >>Sounds like a 486SX/25 system upgraded to a
DX2/50 with an
! OverDrive chip.
! >
! >Or somebody stuck in a DX-50 and its just running at 25 MHz.
You didn't need an "overdrive" chip to make a DX2/50 run at 50 MHz.
Some
motherboards required a jumper settings change, but the SX, DX, and DX/2 would
all work in some applications.
I ran an Evergreen test program on it last night. It said it was running at
50MHz, internally?
! If the chip inserted into the other socket is a plain DX-50
! then it would be just running at 25mhz. The insertion of the DX-50
! or a 487 'coprocessor' would've disabled the SX-25 as well, if it was
! left installed. Too bad the DX-50 got such a bad rap for heat
! problems early on.
!
! BTW, does anyone know how the mainboard tells the difference
! between the 486SX and a 486DX/487? Just looking at them, there
! aren't any pin differences externally, at least between the 486DX-33
! and 486SX-25 I have sitting here.
IIRC, it's how you set the jumpers for the clock multiplier, for the
speed; and it does some sort of detection test for the numeric processor. I
think...
Why not believe what the POST messages tell you?
They should proclaim the clock speed at which the CPU's running if the
board/BIOS combination will support it. BTW, I've owned several Intel DX2/50's
and every one would happily run at 80 MHz without a hiccup or complaint in most
motherboards. They did like a heatsink and fan, however, but there was no need
for low-voltage adapters or any other such thing.
These clock speed jumpers are what I'd like to
identify first. I
have a DX4/100 just sitting here. Then, I want to identify the purpose of
the other 20+ jumpers on this board...
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