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Name: jackbomb
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

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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