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- From: jkesling@shell.portal.com (John Darrell Kesling)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Upgrade 25Mhz GVP G-FORCE 030 to 40 or 50Mhz?
- Date: 12 Feb 1996 22:43:06 GMT
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- slider wrote:
- >-> jkesling@shell.portal.com (John Darrell Kesling) writes:
- >-> Does anyone know if the 25Mhz GVP G-FORCE 030 accelerator can be
- >-> upgraded to 40 or 50Mhz by simply replacing the 68030, 68882 and
- >-> the oscillator?
- >->>>>
- >DONT'T do it!! The support hardware around the 68030 and 68882
- >is not designed for speed above 25Mhz..I fried the custom VLSI chip
- >on a GVP combo board doing this...Board still works but RAM in the
- >expansion simm slots is no longer recognized...
- > James Vigliotti
- > slider@ccnet.com
- >Anyone have an E-mail address to M-TEC (the new GVP owners)
- >Would like to send a combo board to them for repair.
-
- Thanks for the info, that's what I wanted to know. It's not
- however the answer I was hoping for.
-
- John
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