Building a Sossaman rig?

[Martijn]

heh...

i think i have the sweetest sammy on XS.

Wait until I submerge mine in sunflower oil

[Bootup05]

Hai guys, ain't spoke in this thread for quite some time.

Just read through all 17 pages

Bit confused about the heatsinks & Backplates, Dave ordered them, they're with Jcool now? Not too concerned about that right now just wondering.

Anyway. Some of you might be interested.

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Another company Selling the 1.67GHz LV Xeons, for $60.

264 in stock. Worldwide shipping. Accepts Paypal & Google Checkout and most cards.

USPS Priority $29 - Europe - $32.50 for 2 chips

http://www.powerbrixx.com/ibm-39y659...he-p-3113.html

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Update on my situation.

All my rigs will be up tomorrow!

Got my final HDD for the P4. so I'll have 5 systems up. They've been down for a while since I've been doing my room up. Will be updating my thread soon

Got $60 right now to put towards my Xeon, if theres no word about the heatsinks im looking at http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=849289

Either the above or the ram from http://www.microdirect.co.uk/(29845)...67MHz-PC2.aspx / Ebay.

[jcool]

Naw, they're en route to Jaco, stuck in Belgian customs :/

[just a noob]

Wait until I submerge mine in sunflower oil

i wouldn't do oil, thats just a mess to clean off, maybe isopropenal then?

[karl_eller]

I'll just stick mine under L2N and show all you es up

'course, I also have to BUY one first Stupid lack of job and lack of money

[D_A]

... lack of job and lack of money

I hear ya mate.

[Movieman]

You know that auction that I got out of at $160.00 2 days ago?
That scumbag sends me a second chance offer tonight.
Dumb bastage he is.
48 hours after the end he's saying the winner hasn't paid him yet?
The rule of thumb on ebay is you have 7 days to pay.
Add in that this winner "supposedly" bought her first purchase from him and it went well and he's doing a second chance after 48 hours?
Either he's as dumb as a fencepost of he thinks I am.
I sent it all to eBay security and asked thay they dump both of them..

His message to me:
"She didn't pay me, I need money, so if you want, you can buy it. thanks"
He's Vietnamese so I sent him this:
"Tam Biet Irene"
Tam biet is good night!

[Movieman]

it sounded too good to be true...
i don't wanna say i'm glad that i was right about that guy, but i am sorta glad it wasn't real because i was gonna be very heartbroken to see those chips go for a low price, especially since i found the auction the next morning after buying my SL8WTs the night before.
looking at the intel docs it doesn't look like we're missing out on much from the D0 stepping anyway, but still...

anyway, i've tried to pull bsel0 to vss using two different pins, but still no-go. i even updated to the latest bios. my guess is that since the spec sheet had never listed 200mhz fsb for sossamans, the bios doesn't even read it and assumes 166. if that's the case, then the ram divider probably wouldn't switch back to 1:1 either, right?
i wonder if we can find the spec sheet on the pll and soft mod this somehow. it's not listed in the version of clockgen i have, but it'd be nice if we could add it.

yea, I was at $110.00 before "she" cut in and he sends me a second chance offer at my max of $160.75..He can kiss my ass.
I tried the pin mod with a pair of 1667's last year and got nothing.
I do have every piece of paper that I could find on these.
PM me your email addy and I'll send what I have.

[rcofell]

Yeah, I was going to suggest checking into setfsb, it's nice that the source is available, but not in English... You could try sending off an email to the author providing the information he requests on the site.

Good 'ol PIC 8-bit microcontrollers, they're used to teach the embedded systems course

I've been looking into seeing what's possible to do in linux, since there's kernel support for I2C (of which SMBUS is a subset) and tools available for use. I guess the one thing I'm still clueless about is finding the right bus address for the pll, but I think there's at least a tool for querying the bus. I glanced through an Intel motherboard datasheet last night and I was surprised that they listed the pll model/series and address, but that's been the only one I've seen with that information. I checked a Supermicro one, but it only listed the pll model/series...

[jcool]

If any one of you geniuses figure out how to OC this thing, you'll let us know, will ya?

[D_A]

An overclocked sausageman ... scary.

[tiro_uspsss]

If any one of you geniuses figure out how to OC this thing, you'll let us know, will ya?

what about clockgen or similar?

[Movieman]

that's the idea, we just need to look up the datasheets for the pll controllers so we know which bits to abuse via the smbus. i'm out of town on business until thursday night so i'm not able to look at the board, but the ics9db108bft listed for the x6dlp appears to be a pci express bus controller. it seems to be getting its core clock for the fsb from somewhere else. it also looks like the max input clock it takes is 200mhz, so IF we manage to get an overclock out of this, we're capped at 800mhz - which i'd be more than happy with, tbh.

I remember asking cpuz(Franck) here on the forum when I had my DX3600 Irwindale(same 7520 chipset) if a clockgen could be made to work on this and he said no because SuperMicro actually used two of them, one to back up the other in case one failed.
Hopefully different here.
Will get those docs out to you today.

[test.it]

Works on the Intel board the fan speed control?

[Bobsama]

What about... uhm... compromising one of the hw clockgens? Then write for the second clockgen. That should solve the problem.

[tiro_uspsss]

ok.. just tried to boot-up for first time

no POST. no nothing.

diagnostic LEDs show the following:

1st LED: green
2nd LED: nothing
3rd LED: amber
4th LED: nothing

LED codes/info are in mobo manual on pg131.. I cant seem to 'decipher' what the code means - any help would be greatly appreciated!

@ MM: what slot would u advise for a single DIMM? cheers!

[Movieman]

ok.. just tried to boot-up for first time

no POST. no nothing.

diagnostic LEDs show the following:

1st LED: green
2nd LED: nothing
3rd LED: amber
4th LED: nothing

LED codes/info are in mobo manual on pg131.. I cant seem to 'decipher' what the code means - any help would be greatly appreciated!

@ MM: what slot would u advise for a single DIMM? cheers!

2nd slot from the top of the board as you'd see it if the board was in a case.
Mine worked with just one dimm in that slot..
Time to run, need coffee

[tiro_uspsss]

2nd slot from the top of the board as you'd see it if the board was in a case.
Mine worked with just one dimm in that slot..
Time to run, need coffee

slots 1-3 produce the same result... also, just as some more 'info' - *all* the LEDs go thru a rather fancy 'show off' before finally 'settling down' to the previous mentioned order/code

slots 4-8 give a diff result: LEDs 1-3 show amber, LED#4 shows green, as well as the onboard speaker giving me 3 medium length 'beeps'

my darn RAM stick better not be 'DOA'

[tiro_uspsss]

how does one diagnos dead RAM?

I have noooo idea where the nearest person is to me that would have a mobo compatible with ECC+REG DDR2

[Movieman]

how does one diagnos dead RAM?

I have noooo idea where the nearest person is to me that would have a mobo compatible with ECC+REG DDR2

any business near you with servers where you could put on your best Sunday go to church duds and ask politely if the IT guy could check or a PC shop nearby?

[tiro_uspsss]

any business near you with servers where you could put on your best Sunday go to church duds and ask politely if the IT guy could check or a PC shop nearby?

*sigh* I guess I could try that.. its just that most (if not, all) PC shops around here are absolutely friggin' hopeless.. ur average XS cruncher is waaay more 'kitted out' than a wozzie pc shop

[Movieman]

*sigh* I guess I could try that.. its just that most (if not, all) PC shops around here are absolutely friggin' hopeless.. ur average XS cruncher is waaay more 'kitted out' than a wozzie pc shop

You never know unless you ask..
Maybe bring a $5.00 with you and have in your hand as you ask.

[tiro_uspsss]

You never know unless you ask..
Maybe bring a $5.00 with you and have in your hand as you ask.

i'll give the one down the road from me a try tomorrow (if I remember ) ... hope they can help

[Movieman]

i'll give the one down the road from me a try tomorrow (if I remember ) ... hope they can help

good luck..
I have to ask, can you give me ALL the details on that stgick of ram inc the numbers on it so I can check and make sure it's compatable.

[tiro_uspsss]

good luck..
I have to ask, can you give me ALL the details on that stgick of ram inc the numbers on it so I can check and make sure it's compatable.

sure! np! - uno momento.. I will edit this post with the details!

ok, heres the details.... hey, hang on a min.. are u suspecting that this slow-witted, triple-back-plate-buying ozzie bought the wrong stuff?!!?

details:

Kingston KVR400D2S8R3/512I
(512MB SS DIMM, PC2-3200, CL3, REG & ECC)

the 'I' at the end of the model code apparently denotes that it is 'Intel Verified/Certified' - according to the Kingston website.. There is (iirc) some stuff, almost exactly the same code number, but without the 'I' at the end blahblahblah (u get the pic )

anything else I need to add?