[SunRescue] Axil Ultima 1 and 300mhz CPU upgrade

[Paul Phillips]

Well, Mike's suggestion was helpful.  However, here's what I found...

On the Tatung web site there is a really nice diagram of their 
motherboards, and explanations of their jumper settings.

At first I was disappointed, because the layout of the Tatung motherboards 
is somewhat different than that of my Axil.

However, I noticed they have the same jumper nomenclature.  Hmmm...

Tatung says that the jumper in question is J2302.

They say that if the motherboard label is "429", then J2302 should be set 
to pins 2 & 3, no matter if the CPU speed is 170, 200, or 300 mhz. That's 
easy.

On the other hand, if the motherboard label is "439", then J2302 should be 
set to pins 1 & 2 for 300mhz and pins 2 & 3 for 170 or 200.

Unfortunately, I can't see a motherboard label like that anywhere on mine.

Ony my Axil, J2302 is set at pins 1 & 2, and I have a 170mhz processors 
installed.  AAARGH....  According to any of the Tatung possibilities, that 
shouldn't be correct.

Anything for an Axil manual!!!

Anybody have any advice?  If I set the jumpers wrong, will I fry anything? 
Can I just mess around until it works?

Thanks for any advice...
Paul Phillips

--On Sunday, May 20, 2001 6:19 PM -0400 Mike Nicewonger 
<twmaster at twmaster.com> wrote:

> I have a similar machine made by Tatung. Since the board looks like an
> Ultra 2 board sans the second CPU slot, I was going to look and see if
> the jumpers worked the same as the U2. You may want to look at the Tatung
> web site and see if the board layout is similar to your Axil. From some
> photos I remember seeing it looked an awful lot like the layout of a real
> U2 and the Tatung machine.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Mike N
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Phillips" <paul at partitura.com>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 6:09 PM
> Subject: [SunRescue] Axil Ultima 1 and 300mhz CPU upgrade
>
>
>> I have an Axil Ultima 1 that has a 167 mhz processor.  From what I can
>> tell, and from what I remember reading on the remnants of Axil's web page
>> (before it disappeared) this processor is in an Ultra 2 style slot, and
> can
>> be upgraded in a similar manner as an Ultra 2.
>>
>> So, I tok a gamble and bought a 300mhz (2 meg cache) Ultra 2 CPU off
>> ebay. It will be here in a few days.
>>
>> Any hints on installing it, before I give it a go?

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Paul Phillips
Director of Orchestral Activities, Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University

"You must sing every note you play, sing even through the rests!"
Arturo Toscanini