Abit BX6 bios problems

[FooDog]

I've just recently blown some life in my secondary system by adding a new processor, video card and more ram. The most recent addition was the cpu very much thanks to UPS slow operating procedures. As soon as I installed the nes cpu I ran into a few things I cannot explain myself. First of all, the system always boots at the default CPU level [233 MHz] when having instlled a new processor, but the funny thing is that it boots as a PII at 589MHz, not as a celeron, and as far as I know 589 doe not correspond to any set clock fsb multipileer combo.
Nevertheless, when I changed it to a custom setting with FSB @ 112 and the multiplier @ 5.5 with the speed error hold disabled [the highest settings the bios would let me do], the system boots at 962MHz - still a PII when it really should be a celeron @ 671 MHz. What adds to the mess is that peripheral software such as 3DMark registeres it as a celeron @1009 MHz.
Obviosly I figured I had a bios problem and tried to install the recent version. Doing that I got a I immidiately got a write error. To aviod this I thought it be best to scale down the bios legacy. I was able to install bios updates for the BX6 up to the bxhv-update dated 01/25/99, after that all other updates suffered from write errors. Presently I am clueless, what the fck is going on heree. Any advice on the mater would be very helpful.
Oh, other than the bios miss it's running like a champ compared to before, so 3Dmark might be on target as far as indentifying the clock speed and the processor, but there must be some way I can sort this out. Any advice on the matter would be helpful

System spec's:
Intel Celeron 900MHz
Abit BX6 rev 1.0
Asus slotket [latest rev, forgot which one]
kingston PC-133 256 MB RAM
The rest should be dismissable.

 

[FooDog]

Hey, please, give me something to go on here

 

[oldfart]

You were flashing from a bootable floppy? If not, do it that way. Be sure you are not overclocked when you are flashing. Be sure you are using the latest flash utility. Was it bx6qs you were trying?

 

[FooDog]

Bootable floppy of course. I tried all bios updates posted on abit's web page, but only the ones through the bxhv worked, all other resulted in write errors. I wasn't intentionally OCing while updating, but since I could only get it to boot with the standard clock speed by using the custom settings. I will try to play around with the CPU settings to see if I cannot, maybe the default will do the trick.

Interesting note. I have also used a hacksaw for the first time updating a system. The PS in the old case was in the way so I had to cut a large chunk out of the new HS. Gone are the times when a screwdriver was all you needed...

I just found out I scored one of the XP/gigabyte deals through AMD's extreme performance promo so I'll be returning shortly for advic on unlocking the L1. Does anyone know exactly what XP version it is? It didn't say on the prize claim page.