Re: Endeavour Board & Pentium 120MHz ID

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From: Malcolm Muir
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 00:00

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David Longley (David@longley.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> I've just installed an Endeavour Board and 120MHz Pentium. Looking at the
> board and (disk based) manual, the DIP switches 6,7 and 8 seem to need to
> be reset to make the system ID the 120 CPU. At present  the  DIP switches 
> are all set to OFF and the board/manual only talk about 75,90  and 100MHz
> CPUs. What do I need to do to get the system to recognize the 120MHz CPU?
> QEMM MFT etc and SETUP say the CPU is a 90MHz chip !

First I believe earlier boards did not support > 90Mhz. Both the
manual I have and the board clearly document 120Mhz and 133Mhz
settings.

Second the one I have has a Socket 7 (earlier models had a Socket 5 I
recall) and the switch settings for 120MHz are:

Switch 6 on
Switch 7 off
Switch 8 off

-- 
Malcolm S. Muir
Sunderland
England

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