[luau] Re: dual pentium pro

[Yu Ming]

Thank you,Dusty. But maybe you have used Powerleap's Neo S370 in
conjunction with PL-PRO/II, since PIII 1.1Ghz's pin definition (as
as well as the voltage?) is different from Celeron 533's.
Ming Yu

> 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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