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*** TABLE OF CONTENT ***

  1. Precautions and Warnings before you start !

  2. Introduction to Type-4 Pentium 90 Platform
    Location of the important components


  3. The importance of cooling certain components

  4. Modification A) Using a Pentium Overdrive 180 / 200
  5. Modification B) Hardwired BF0 / BF1 Pins for different Bus / Core ratio
  6. Modification C) Altering the base-clock from 60 to 66MHz
  7. Modification D) Using a Madex Interposer and P-233MMX CPU

  8. Problems, Workarounds and other stuff

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Introduction to Type-4 Pentium 90 Platform
Location of the important components


The IBM Type 4 P-90 Platform is also often referenced as the "Y-Platform" - because it showed up in the few Mod. 9595-xYx machines. Originally it came with the Server 500 and was offered as an option to the Model 95 series.
Preferably it is combined with the 95A planar, which can be identified by the two serial and two parallel ports and which offers optimum performance and support for all the platform features.

IBM Type 4 Platform with Pentium 90
IBM Type 4 Platform with Pentium 90

The codename of the platform was "Cubrun" (don't know what that should be), the IBM numbers brought in connection with it are Partnumber P/N 06H8589, FRU 06H7095 (with flawless P90), P/N 06H3729 (with buggy P90 - original P/N for FCC application), FRU 06H3739. Earlier P/Ns may still have a buggy Pentium 90 processor installed. Intel still replaces them !

No problem if you plan to replace that P90 against something else anyway.

The Type-4 platforms have 128KB IBM SurePath Flash-ROM based BIOS and offer a Synchro-Stream Mode for 40MB/s data transfer rates (up to 80MB/s in 64-bit burst transfers).

This platform is a so-called "Socket-5" board. The CPU connector is LIF (Low Insertation Force) but not ZIF (Zero Insertation Force) like the Socket 7. The socket layout is staggered in contrast to the older Pentium P60 and 66 and the 486 Type-4 platforms.
It uses the Intel Pentium 90 processor on a 2:3 bus/core ratio with a base clock of 60 MHz.
The Pentium-90 processor is accompanied by an Intel 82497-60 Cache Controller and a set of 10 Intel 82492-60 Cache RAMs for a total of 256K Level-2 Cache (5 chips on either side of the card).

The P90 platform also has one on-card voltage regulator for some of the other logic chips (3.75V) and another voltage regulator for the Pentium 90 processor, the cache controller and the cache RAMs (3.3V).


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