Q Type 4 Complex
Rf90954a.exe Reference disk for Type 4 Complexes
Rd9095a.exe Common Diagnostics for all 859x / 959x Systems

Type 4 Common Devices 

Memory supported, cache, features 
Support for Convenience Partition on >3.94GB Drives
BIOS releases
    Flash BIOS 05 from BIOS 03 or less
    BIOS Level Revison Features
FDIV Replacement
Diagnostic LEDs
"Q" / Upgrade Pentium 66 MHz   92F0120
      Intel Pentium Overdrive 133MHz (POD133/120)
      Possible Q Upgrade Success! (Tim Clarke reutrns!)
496 vs. 497 Cache Controller



"Q" / Upgrade Pentium 66 MHz 92F0120


 

C39 22uF capacitor
CR1-2 Diagnostic LEDs.
J6  Function unknown
J3 Serial Diagnostics Link to operator panel 
J5 Serial Link
JMP5 Flash ROM bank switch 
OS1 66 MHz oscillator. CPU Bus clock.
U3   10G3407 Flash BIOS, Odd ?
U5   10G3372 Flash BIOS Even ?
U10, 12, 15, 16, 18 82491-66
U11   Socket 4 5v for Pentium 60 or 66
U13   87X0079
U17   A82496-66 Cache controller
U23   10G3441
U24   50G8192 Unknown DMA Controller?
U25   LT LT1085CT Voltage Regulator

C39 22uF capacitor not present on P complex. Possible power filter?
CR1-CR2 Diagnostic LEDs. CR1 lights momentarily at the start of POST, then turns off, CR2 stays on during POST, then turns off..
J6  Present on some P60/P66 complexes. Function unknown
U17   A82496-66 Cache controller 
U23   10G3441  SynchroStream Controller versions 

Outline Left of CPU Unknown. Maybe for a component that used four mounting posts to match the pattern. The right pair have thick PCB traces going to them. Maybe a VRM?

Q Complex Back

OS2 40 MHz MCA Bus Clock



Memory
Min/Max on system board: 8/64MB Parity, 8/256MB ECC
RAM: DRAM (PS/2 72-pin SIMM, ECC or Parity) 70ns
ROM: 128kb 
Cache: 8kb L1, 256kb L2 (P60, P66, P90)
SynchroStreamTM
* 40 MB per second streaming data transfer.
* Error Checking and Correcting (ECC) memory controller
* 256KB Level 2 memory cache (write-through) on Pentium complexes 
* 20 MHz DMA; 32 bit DMA can directly address all memory
* DMA supports Subsystem Control Block.
* Faster bus arbitration (than Base 1) for busmaster performance.
* Enhanced Dual Path Memory
* Subsystem Control Block enabled
* Vital Product Data support.
* Synchronous Channel Check support
* Data bus parity support
* A logging facility is provided (for ECC or system errors)..


Intel Pentium Overdrive 133MHz (POD133/120)
From Terminaut
   I dug through craploads of old Intel documents today, and found my notes from Intel (circa '95) for the Pentium Overdrive 133MHz (POD133/120) processor.
   Written in plain ingles, the Intel doc says: "will not support the 82496 Cache Controller and 82491 Cache SRAM chip set"
   Additionally, the documentation states that the POD133 is designed to support _PCI_ chipsets.
Some other notes:
 - IU, IV, and IBT plus have been removed
 - branch trace pins (BT[3:0]) have been removed (no execution tracing)
 - breakpoint pins (BP[3:0]) have been redefined such that each assertion of one of these pins indicates that 1 to N BP matches occurred, where N =core/bus frequency ratio
- STI/CLI (restore/clear interrupts) are each 2 clocks shorter


Possible Q Upgrade Success
Tim Clarke said:
    Without going into too much analysis as to WHY its working. I have this up and running reliably, so far. Using a T4-P66 complex previously Flashed to BIOS Level 10, an 82497 cache controller from a T4 P90 complex and a stock PODP5V120/133 Overdrive for Socket 4 (Ed. square 21x21, 237pin PGA (pin-grid-array), stop beating me, Tim!))
    It threw the odd "1047000 221" error (cache/memory-related?) early in the power-on, auto-reconfigure, set date&time, auto-reboot song and dance but doesn't seem to do that anymore. Maybe there are some devious POS-stored auto-tuned cache-control/memory-access related parameters, but hey, I'm not complaining.



496 vs. 497 Cache Controller 

 From Dr. Jim Shorney 
   Overdrive processors are not compatible with the '496 cache controller on the P60/66 complexes.  However...  I swapped out the '496 cache controller on mine for a borrowed '497 (well heatsinked)  and was able to boot DOS with a POD 133 on my P60 (overclocked to 66).  It wasn't entirely stable, and would not boot OS/2 Warp 4.0 or NT 4.0.  The Powerleap PL54C interposer was still dead in this configuration.  There may yet be hope, I haven't tried the Powerleap with anything other than an Intel 166 yet, and I may also downclock the complex back to 60 MHz and see what happens.  There may yet be hope... 
      The '497 reportedly has a 3.3v core, but it seemed to run stable and reliable for several hours with the stock P60 CPU in my system in place of the 5v '496.   I briefly looked over the docs this afternoon (712 pages, wow...). Seems the '497 is still a 5v part, it is the I/O buffers that connect to the CPU that are 3.3v.  This probably explains in part why the chip doesn't self-destruct in the '496 socket.  It also seems to invalidate the need for an  interposer, since the P60/66 I/O is 5v anyway and the buffers would have to run at 5v to interface at all with the CPU.  This brings up the question of noise immunity, though - will circuits designed to run at 3.3v logic levels be more or less sensitive to noise or poor signal quality when run at 5v?  Inquiring minds want to know. 

From Tony Ingenoso
    I suspect noise is going to be less of a problem at higher voltages Jim.  In theory, the voltage range for correct operation would be wider(particularly for CMOS).  The only reason I ever saw (other than laptop applications) for the drive to lower voltages was to limit heat as the gate counts and frequencies went up.  CMOS parts like high voltages -- you can crank clock speeds faster with higher voltages(the standard overclockers trick).  Discrete type CMOS parts can often be run as high as 20V and work fine.  The downside is that its power characteristics start approaching those of TTL at the higher speeds (and heat goes up).  If the only nominally 3.3V sections of the cache controller are the line drivers/buffers, there's probably not going to be enough stuff getting overvoltaged to make any significant difference in the power draw. 



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