Hi Harper,
" The only thing that i can advise that you might want to scout around from one Computer Forums to another." Yes I'm doing that I also tried computer recycling, no luck there.
The reason I got the PowerLeap. (Was a lot!!! cheaper buying on Ebay from USA, than in UK, did not cost enough to get customs vat on it either.) The reason, the board can support up to an AMD K6 266MHz. I thought as machine made in 1997 and user manual printed in 1997. The AMD K6 300 MHz was out about 1998 I think, so I assumed, board could support the 300 too. According to motherboard site, no. Anyway, I found a source for brand new OEM 300MHz chips and bought 2, had to pay bit of customs on them. So I set the jumpers on the board, neither of them ran in machine. This was before I found out the board does not support the 300. Bla,bla so I went and got 2 brand new OEM AMD K6 266MHz that the board will run on, reset the jumpers, no luck again.
So I contacted the expert volunteer techies at
www.Protonic.com. To try and find out why the chips did not work. The markings did not seem to be standard, thought might be fakes,etc,etc,etc. Then I found out about PowerLeap, this would let me run a 300MHz in the machine, so can find out if genuine chips or not. If not try and get my money back off Visa, if ok can sell perhaps the other chips on Ebay and I have a machine running a 300MHz.
So as you know, I have the PowerLeap adapter but can't fit the **** in. I have been sitting at the computer as I drift about online, thinking, how about if I get an old socket 7 motherboard, than someone has trashed, get out the soldering iron and solder sucker, and carefully remove the socket 7, get out the hacksaw and saw the lip off. I'm assuming here, that the pins going into the motherboard pcb, will plug into the top of my socket 7, thus raising it clear of the capacitors. Then I can plug the PowerLeap in. All said, I have this feeling, that this will not work out!
The PGA socket extender seem to be from the era of the 486. There must be one around somewhere, but where?
I did contact Kingstone Technology who did the Evergreen upgrade adapters. I was reading some of there old product info, some of there items came with a PGA riser, thought they might have one around by chance. Contacted PowerLeap again to see if they have one, or can direct me to a source.
Anyway, bla, bla.
Have a nice day,
Peter.
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