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First post, by matze79

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Hi,

i want to enable Turbo per Default on my Faraday Clone (Proton FE010A) based Turbo XT,
any one knows how i can do it ?
Is there a Turbo Program ? would be cool if i can do it over Autoxec.bat instead of pressing each reset Strg+Alt+ "+".

Thanks

Matthias

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Reply 1 of 4, by Horun

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My old XT3 Turbo has a "speed.com" file that can be manually run or called from a batch file instead of using the keyboard method. There may be a generic utility that will work on your XT. Or you might be able to write a program to do it.....

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Reply 2 of 4, by Caluser2000

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Fit a turbo switch. Bound to be a connector on the mobo. Also you may just be able to use a jumper on that connector.

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Reply 3 of 4, by theoryboy

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dont know what chipset the Proton FE010A is based on but if its anything like the FE2010A , you could do it via bat file by passing data via debug to the correct register

https://github.com/skiselev/micro_8088/blob/m … ller-FE2010A.md

Configuration Register
The Configuration Register (I/O Address 0x63) is a write only register that is used for FE2010A configuration. If bit 3 is written, bits 0 - 4 of this register and the switch register are locked in that they may not be written to. This lock is removed by a system reset.

Data Bit Function
0 Disable Parity Checker
1 Enable 8087 NMI
2 On Board RAM size (bit 0)
3 lock register (bits 0-4)
4 On Board RAM size (bit 1)
5 Fast Mode (0 RAM wait states)
6 7.15 MHz CPU clock
7 9.54 MHz CPU clock

And a video of Adrian's Digital Basement doing something like this on a Compaq, the address would be different but I am sure the same idea applies.
https://youtu.be/GMrCf0w4BUU?t=2255

Reply 4 of 4, by jasa1063

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Since the NuXT and Micro 8088 motherboards use the FE2010A chipset, give the utility I wrote a try:

NuXT CPU speed setting utility