mkemp
Experienced Member
My XT-286 has a 10mHz 80286 chip in it plus a patched BIOS without the 'speed bump' that should allow for clock speeds greater than 6mHz.
Has anyone tried this and, if so, what kind of speed could you achieve?
Note: the original power supply was dead and I didn't have a spare XT supply (ATs are too tall), so I transplanted the innards from a 230W ATX supply, did a bit of soldering to the Big Red Switch and used a ATX-to-AT cable. Works fine.
The other fun fact is that I found a Seagate ST31220A drive to run in it - 1.080gb that can be jumpered to act like two 540mb drives to get around OS limitations.
Has anyone tried this and, if so, what kind of speed could you achieve?
Note: the original power supply was dead and I didn't have a spare XT supply (ATs are too tall), so I transplanted the innards from a 230W ATX supply, did a bit of soldering to the Big Red Switch and used a ATX-to-AT cable. Works fine.
The other fun fact is that I found a Seagate ST31220A drive to run in it - 1.080gb that can be jumpered to act like two 540mb drives to get around OS limitations.