[clue] [TECH] PC104 or PCI replacement/upgrade CPU board?

[Jim Ockers]

Hi CLUEbies,

I'm grasping at straws here but thought I'd see if anyone out there has 
a suggestion.

We have a single board computer with a 486DX2 chip on it.  The board is 
end-of-life and the CPU is soldered to the board (probably BGA).  There 
are PC104 and PCI connectors on the board.  Can anyone thing of any way 
we could keep using this board for a little while longer (until the R&D 
is done on the new system architecture) but with a faster CPU?

We think we remember seeing (long ago) CPU or coprocessors you could put 
in an ISA or PCI slot or something.  They would either coexist with or 
replace the CPU, or something.  Does this ring a bell with anyone?  Can 
you suggest any way we could get the board to be faster?  We tried & 
won't be able to desolder the 486 chip to replace it with a faster 
chip.  If only it was a socket!

ObLinux: the OS that is on the hard drive for this SBC is Red Hat 7.2.

Thanks,
Jim

-- 
Jim Ockers, P.Eng. (ockers at ockers.net)
Contact info: http://www.ockers.net/msi.html


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