Will Tyan Tiger 100 (1832) properly support PIII 1Ghz/100Mhz processors?

[Kwad Guy]

The Tyan website only claims support for processors up to PIII 850Mhz
for the Tyan Tiger 100 (1832) BX- based motherboard. Does anyone know
if the motherboard properly supports 1Ghz/100Mhz (slot 1) processors?
If yes, does anyone have experience with a dual 1Ghz/100Mhz configuration
modestly overclocked (e.g. 112Mhz FSB)? Stable or questionable?

Kwad

 

[Kwad Guy]

Well, since no one answered, I just went ahead and tried it
myself. I am working with a Tyan Tiger 1833 (OEM version of 1832,
Revision "F", with version 2.0 BIOS that supports Coppermines).

I put two PIII 1Ghz/100Mhz slot processors on the board. Set
the FSB to 112Mhz (nominal overclocking which works fine with
most chips)...System hangs at the BootMagic select screen.

Turned the FSB down to 103Mhz. I've never (before) encountered a chip
that wouldn't overclock a nominal 3%. Nope, not these. System gets
to the "Starting Windows 2000" screen (farther than with 112Mhz), but
then I get the blue screen of death.

Turned the FSB down to the proper 100Mhz. Now the system boots
into Win2K without problem. However, I am not yet satisfied it's
working properly. I ran a video encoder last night, and this morning
I got an error I've never seen before when running this software about
a non-matching checksum...Hmmm...Still on the fence.

Another thing: The BIOS reports "invalid microcode" with the 1Ghz
processors installed. I've never seen that one before, either.

So my gut feeling is, regarding the 1Ghz chips on the Tiger 100:
Prolly not.

Kwad

 

[BlitzRommel]

They're not supported, but you've proven that they'll work to some extent 🙂

 

[GFORCE100]

Not true, they work fine on a 1832DL revision F Tyan board. You have a Gateway version there.

 

[ripthesystem]

gforce100 is right..
they will also work on the Tyan Tiger 133a boards

ripthesystem

 

[Kwad Guy]

Yeah, as I noted, the 1833 is the OEM (Gateway) version. I also
have a genuine 1832 board. BIOS revision on both boards is the same.
And when I (just) tried them on the 1832, evertything looks and
acts the same...Same error message, same inability to run even
3% overclocked. Not sure yet about that checksum error...

As for the Tiger 133 board: Irrelevant, as that is a crappy POS
Via chipset board. I wouldn't base a system on that board if you
paid me!

Kwad

 

[GFORCE100]

The talk here is of the Tiger 100, not Tiger 133. What you need there is a BIOS update most probably. You can get one right here