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24th May 2008, 15:18
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 |  Haven't found a large picture of a rev5.2 board yet, but, as the JP9 is present and connected (two pins are soldered together), it should be possible to cut that connection and change it with jumpers to hit 135MHz, no?
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24th May 2008, 15:33
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  | It should be possible to replace it with some kind of jumper, no problem, but it is not being said that it will then be able hit more then 100MHz FSB. Can you use rev5.2 BIOS? |
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24th May 2008, 15:40
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| The bios has nothing to do with settings FSB mhz, the fsb is set by those jumpers and cannot be set in the bios.
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24th May 2008, 17:16
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| FSB cannot be set via BIOS? Even the pcchips board could do that  |
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24th May 2008, 18:00
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| P5A can't, 5AX can't and those two boards are noticably better than the PCCHips  What does this say about the modifications?
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24th May 2008, 18:51
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| If you could use BIOS of the rev5 board, you would not need the extra jumper, and looking at the ICS 9148BF-36 datasheet it seems that the PLL can only have 3 jumpers as these are the only the frequency select bits. I guess you need to continue your hunt for rev5 boards. |
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24th May 2008, 19:19
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| What's with you and the bios? Are you having an affair behind my back??? The only difference between Rev3 and Rev5.2 is that JP10. Nothing else, the bios is exactly the same! Rev3: JP7 and JP8 (and JP9) Rev5: JP7, JP8, JP9 and JP10. Look at the picture of JP9. Can't I just cut that connection and add a jumper on the three soldering points? If yes, I already have 135MHz fsb. JP10 just isn't visible on the Rev3 board.
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24th May 2008, 19:56
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| I think you did not understand me too well. rev3 uses the ICS 9148BF-36 PLL which has only 3 FSB frequency select pins, and so that's the reason why there probable ain't JP10 viewable on your board, because the PLL can't use it! The rev5.2 board has 4 frequency select pins so I'm wondering if they both use the same PLL. You say they do, but I'm just not so sure. Anyway, you should start with cutting the JP9 jumper and wee what happens. You can easily make a jumper at that spot, if you don't have a spare one then just take 3 wires which you can bind together, electrically its the same  |
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24th May 2008, 20:37
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| Hmm, I'll try to figure out whether it uses the same PLL or not. But what does the Bios of rev5 have to do with all this?
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24th May 2008, 20:56
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| I can find multiple 5AX boards in ebay, would it help to buy several if you ever intend to try to make a turboPLL?
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