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Intel Advanced AS M/Board

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From: Geoffrey Edward Minshull
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 00:00
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I just purchased an Intel Endeavour motherboard with 166 MHz Intel 
Pentium CPU, and have actually received an Intel Advanced AS 
Motherboardboard. It uses the Crystal audio system rather than the Creative 
Labs. Otherwise it seems to be the same specification. It has space for the 
Mach64 graphics chip - but it is not fitted.

I have some questions regarding setting up the board:

Mine arrived with J1N1 set with 4-5 linked. The accompanying 'handbook' 
dosen't actually specify settings for a 166MHz CPU, but I presume they should 
all use the 2.5x clock multiplier; this would require J1N1 to be set to 5-6.

Mine also arrived with J8F2 set to 5-6 which sets voltage regulation to VRE 
rather than VR. Can someone tell me if this is correct?

I can't see a way of disabling the on board Crystal audio system. I want to use 
my existing AWE32 sound card. Do I need to disable the Crystal audio system, 
and if so, how do I do it?

The CPU arrived with no heat sink. I have ordered a fan, but I think that if I fit 
the fan I will not be able to plug in my full length AWE32 card. The 'handbook' 
makes reference to boards shipped from Intel with CPU fitted having a 
'special low profile heat sink so that all ISA slots will accept full length add-in 
cards'. Does anyone have any experience of this or know where such a heat 
sink can be purchased?

Finally, in my current system I have an HP scanner and a Bernoulli disk drive 
each operating off separate SCSI interface cards. I would like to integrate 
them both on to 1 PCI SCSI card. Any recommendations for the SCSI card?

Thanks in advance for any help,
-- 
Geoff Minshull
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