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Name: jackbomb
Date: February 20, 2006 at 21:39:52 Pacific
OS: Windows XP Media Center
CPU/Ram: x2 4800/4GB
Product: jackbomb
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I'm rigging up an old puter (again).

Intel 440FX P2 board, 192 megs of EDO, and a Pentium II-266. I have the latest BIOS on it.

I have an old Pentium III-550 lying around, and am trying to get it to work here.

Because of the limitations of the 440FX chipset, the PIII-550 runs at 366MHz. I don't really mind.

However, I can't get the L2 cache on the P3 chip to work. The L2 cache on the P2 is seen, but when I put in my P3, CPU-Z says that I've got "0KB of L2 cache." I can tell that the cache is missing too; screen redraws seem a lot slower with the cache-disabled P3, as if video acceleration were disabled.

Now back in 1998, I had a Windows utility that let me enable the L2 cache of a Celeron/P3 on an older P2 motherboard. This app is long gone, and Google isn't helping. Anyone know how to get the cache to work?
Thanks



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Name: Sabertooth
Date: February 20, 2006 at 22:28:40 Pacific
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http://www.powerleap.com/downloads/utilities/cacheutility.zip

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Name: jackbomb
Date: February 21, 2006 at 15:32:21 Pacific
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Thank you! You're my hero!!!!!

w00t! 366MHz of cache-enabled P3 power! Time to install XP on this sucker.

Once again, thank you.


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Name: Sabertooth
Date: February 21, 2006 at 17:56:16 Pacific
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