Forcing power into an ATX board, also: AMD K6-2 overclocking!

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As an vintage Super Socket 7 board does not want to turn on, let's force power into it and it indeed comes back to life!
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Ok, replacing the battery actually repaired my board too. I have a GA-586STX. I didn't think having no battery would make the board completely useless. Good thing I didn't throw it away.

Tom
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Regarding the -5v fail in the BIOS: Modern power supplies very often don't include a -5v voltage rail anymore. That's why it's "failing".

voutzify
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I was recently reading on anandtech (old articles) that the requirements for a Motherboard to be consider Super7, it had to have 100FSB support, AMD K6-X support, and AGP.
Great video mate!

alexviralata
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Maybe the CPUID-feature was set to disabled in your BIOS!
Nice mainboard anyway, Gigabyte boards of those years were very reliable in my experience.

armorgeddon
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Nice videos, I sometimes like to play with hardware like this too. I happen to have a GA-586TX3 which looks very similar to your board, it received a BIOS update for correctly detecting the K6-2 at 400MHz (and I bought this CPU on ebay just for the fun of trying it). Also had to use the remapped multiplier for that to work with the 66MHz bus, but it does work.

Something to keep in mind though: the Intel 430TX chipset supports 256MB of RAM but only 64MB of cacheable RAM. Performance with more RAM could be worse because of this. Not sure what part of the memory will be cached in that case. And does Linux start allocating pages at the beginning or end of physical memory space? ;-)

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