Abit SocketIII voltage settings?

[Jolt2]

I have a socketIII slot adapter card that did not come with any instructions. I need to know how to setup the voltage on the socket for over clocking. I have a Celeron 566 that I want to set to 1.7 volts and when I set the jumper on the SocketIII to 1.7 volts, the system will not boot, the BIOS
knows something is not right and it will only start on the default BIOS settings after pressing the "Insert" key on bootup. Now if I set the SocketIII to 2.05 volts than the system boots to the default 1.5 volts. Something just does not make sense to me. What settings would I need to get 1.7 volts? I am putting this processor/socket card in a Soyo SY-6BA+100 motherboard that will only do 1.65 volts, which is were I am running at now. Why bother, well I know this processor runs stable at 1.7 volts in an Abit board and after moving it to this board, the system sometimes locks up. I would like to try 1.7 volts just to know that that is not the problem.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Entity23]

look on the back of the slocket, im assuming its an abit? It should have come with a black cover that has instructions on it as well. You also have to set the card to be a celeron instead of p3. jp9(1-2)celeron.

 

[Jolt2]

Yes, I have the setup chart on the adapter and it looks straight forward as to how to set the thing up for what voltage you want. The problem is way my BIOS will not boot my system when set to 1.7 volts but will boot when I set the adapter to 2.05 volts. The motherboard will only boot to the stock voltage of 1.5 volts even if the SocketIII is set for 2.05 volts. In the BIOS on my Soyo SY-6BA+100 motherboard, I can up the voltage 10% or 1.65 volts and that is were I am running it at now.

I thought that the SocketIII gave you the ablity to adjust or set what ever processor voltage you wanted. Maybe I am wrong in thinking that but why would Abit put all those voltage settings on the card if the setting don't do anything?

 

[Jolt2]

OK, I got my problem fixed and this is just info for the Abit socketIII adapter board.

From what I went through, I would say that the jumpers on the socket board are only used for reducing the voltage down on an older board that does not support a coppermine processor. The older boards and processors used 2.0 volts and the newer coppermine chips run at 1.5 volts. When the older motherboard will not cut down the voltage enough for the newer coppermine processors, the Abit scoketIII will do the job. The Abit socketIII adapter will not raise the voltage over what the processor pins call for. At least it would not for me. I searched all over the web and could not find any info on this adapter card and what it will do, so these are my conclusions from what I went through to get the voltage in on this motherboard.

My Soyo SY-6BA+100 motherboard will up the processor voltage in the BIOS but it's max is 10% over stock voltage (max 1.65 volts). To get my processor to 1.7 volts, I had to wire wrap some pins on the processor to fool the motherboard into a stock voltage setting of 1.65 volts and then in the BIOS add 5% over, which gives me 1.72 volts. My system is now stabile with this board.