k6-2 plus problem

[rwnancar]

I have a soyo 5emm mother board that I installed a k6-2 plus 450(128k on chip cach), but I can only get the chip to run at 333 (66 x5, 75 x4.5, or 83x4). The mother board says the chip is a mnx 66, winodows 98 calls it a k6-3. I have the latest bios and have tried three different brands of PC133 or PC100 memory. This mother board supports K6-2 and -3, and supports the required 2.0 volts (I have tried upping the voltage to 2.2 no results). Whenever I try rasing the multiplier above 333 (even 5.5 x 66) I get no boot. Any ideas

[deore101]

Check out this page> http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/k6plus.htm

You would need to have a Bios that would support the K6 "plus" chips, and sadly there isn't one for the Soyo 5EMM. :(

The only ones that'll work on your mobo are the regular K6-2's and K6-3's.

Regards,

deore101

[elleon30033]

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_2364,00.html

go there and download amdcpuid, it will tell you the speed you should run it on 4 sure.....I'm curious about how this test comes out...lets us know if it confirms your belief

[rwnancar]

I am running the WCPUID.exe program to identify and check the speed. The program matches the mulitplier and bus speed of the board. WCPUID also calls the chip a K-3, but correctly identifies the on chip cach.

[deore101]

I'm running a K6-2+ on one of my systems, and it also shows up as a K6-3. That's not a problem though.

The problem you're having is that you don't have a bios that will support running a K6-2+ chip.

And also, are you sure that board will run a K6-3?
I just went to Soyo's webpage, and it says there that the 5EMM will only run a K6-2 chip of 266-450.

The K6-2 and the K6-2+ are very different chips.

[rwnancar]

The the lastest Quick Start Guide on the USA site lists K-2 500 and K-3 450 as supported. I will try the multiplier utilies mentioned on J.Steunebrink's web site. I am keeping the chip because it still runs very fast because of the on chip cach.

[deore101]

It's not the multipliers, you need a bios that will support it.

It's that simple.

[rwnancar]

I guess, I need to be happy with 333 on this old computer. I will jump to a 1 gig or higher chip for my mext computer.

[deore101]

Even at 333 with the 128 on-die cache, it'll be pretty speedy. :)

Good luck to 'ya with the new system!

deore101