[luau] dual pentium pro

[Dustin Cross]

Aloha,

Yes,  just put faster PIII processors in the PL-PRO/II adapters.  The PPro
systems run at 66mhz.  What I did was convince Powerleap to sell me PL-
PRO/II adapters with no processors and then I bought 2x PIII 1.1Ghz
processors with 100Mhz bus.  The bus is the important part.  Basically you
are under clocking the processor in the PPro system.  One of the PIIIs I
got was 133Mhz bus (the retailer thought he was doing me a favor) and that
processor ran much slower (1.1Ghz @ 100Mhz underclocked to 66Mhz = 726Mhz,
1.1Ghz at 133Mhz underclocked to 66Mhz = 539Mhz).  So I traded in that
processor for the 100Mhz and everything worked fine.  My Tyan 1662 board
booted right up and worked great with Linux and Win2k .


Mahalo,
Dusty


> I had a dual pentium pro machine running Linux, and recently upgraded
> the machine to dual celeron 533MHz by using the socket converter
> PL-PRO/II manufactured by Powerleap. I read from your archives
> that someone can upgrade such machine to dual PIII 730MHz.
> Does anyone know how this could be done or give any hint?
> Ming Yu
>
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