PowerLeap
Has anyone who reads this ever worked with a PowerLeap CPU upgrade? I’ve got a machine that I’m working on here, and it seems to have a PowerLeap PL-iP3/T in it. The machine boots saying that it’s running with a 111Mhz FSB at 800-some MHz, but installed in this PowerLeap device is a 1.3Ghz Socket 370 Celeron. In addition, the documentation that I got with the computer states that one should “Please disregard the speed shown from the BIOS when you boot. This may not be the true speed of your system.”
I’m… not really sure what to make of this device. It’s currently installed in a 440BX-based Slot 1 board with a mixture of PC100 and PC133 DIMMs. In addition, this motherboard has had it’s BIOS upgraded with one from eSupport.com. I’m not really sure what to think of this place. They seem to sell all sorts of interesting third-party BIOS’, CPU upgrades, etc.
Maybe removing the PC100 memory from the system will help…
I don’t htink the RAM speed is going to make a difference. I know that some of the late run PIIIs were 133 bused, but this motherboard clearly won’t support that.
I’ve also read the “disregard what the BIOS says” line.
I’ve read a few reviews on these I belive Tom’s has one on their site.
CPUID Should ID this chip correctly.
I looked at the chip itself… It’s very much a Celeron 1.3. This is just… An odd setup. Very cobbled together. I’ve got memtest going on it with 1 PC133 Crucial DIMM. We’ll see where that goes…