Abit be6 II upgrading my CPU to 750Mhz

[cisco]

I just installed a PIII 750mhz CPU on my MB and it will say its a 500E unless I change the soft menu to
"user defined" and the set the FSB to 100mhz and the multiplier to 7.5
why doesn't it just auto detect the cpu at the correct speed. ??
Is it running at 750mhz now in user defined settings, would flashing the bios help, not sure what version it is now?

 

[cisco]

TTT

 

[Jhhnn]

Seems like a bios issue to me, unless your slotket(if any) settings are off. Download the latest bios from Abit, make sure of the revision of your board before you flash....

Check out Badflash.com- flashing can fail, it's good to have a "Plan B".

The multiplier setting shouldn't matter, unless you somehow have an engineering sample. Late model Intel processors are multiplier locked, they ignore the setting on the mobo....

 

[cisco]

just to clarify, the cpu is a slot 1, I traded for it a while ago, the black slot 1 case says 750 on it , I guess I'll have to try it in another system , I was just wondering why the motherboard doesn't just detect it as a PIII 750 instead of what it says "500E" If my other system detects it as a 750 then my abit needs a flash , if the other system says 500E then the person I traded with switched the case on it..I do think the problem is in the Abits bios, when I tried to falsh it I wasn't sure what to type in?
Abit's website said awdflash and then had a line of commands /sy /pr etc
could figure out how to flash it right ....thanks for the website badflash can't read it now but I'll check it later...

 

[Jhhnn]

The instructions on the Abit site are goofy. I recently flashed a bh6, it was easy. Prep the boot disk with the new bios file and new awdflash.exe. Boot to the floppy, type in "awdflash.exe<enter>" at the A:| prompt. It's semi-automated, just follow the instructions.