Received two boards yesterday :thumbsup:. Thanks.
I've got my MACH chips in their original sockets. So I guess I need to run more wires than 2, it's ok though as long as I know where I need to connect them to :)
Just to inform, I've successfully upgraded the other Apollo card that I purchased on here. I updated the original blog (link: Apollo 1260 MACH 130 / 131 myth busted!).
Hmm.. PST0/1 seem very interesting from my perspective. If I connect them to my scope channels I could monitor real time how well any particular routine utilises the superscalar pipeline. I may need to look more into this :cool:
Cheers. Hope you get the boards fixed.
I was looking at the card that is my current work in progress and I cannot see any traces going from that pin to anywhere on the board. I tried to capture an image in a lighting that shows the traces inside the board. Also went through the board with a multimeter and found nothing connected to...
Well... Decided to take off the cpu. I was pondering if I should remove the piece of ram socket but decided not to bother. Now I'm left with the somewhat tedious task of vacuuming out all the solder. Might leave that for next week, unless I get a sudden urge to do that tomorrow :)
Now I've...
Yesterday I learned the hard way I shouldn't use the whatchamacallit plying tool with the mach 130 chip. The other end slipped out and brought a piece of the plastic casing with it and made a nice scrape. Luckily the chip is ok but I got a bit of a scare out of that one :). Turns out there might...
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