Any issues of Abit BH6 and Cumine?

[Eug]

Hey, don't shoot me, I'm not getting the Abit. My friend is for very cheap.

I don't know the revision number, but my guess is it's one of the older ones (pre-1.1?).

Any concerns? He wants to run a 566 at 850 as an upgrade to his Celeron 400 on LX. I seem to recall it runs fine with Cumine, but I just wanna make sure.

 

[Toro 45]

The only problem I ran into was the BH6 would'nt recognize the voltage adjustments on my MSI slotket. Bios only went to 1.70 volts, I wanted more.
Toro

 

[compuwiz1]

You have to do the bios flash trick to run higher voltages. As much as I'm against Abit products, I have to admit, I have lots of people I've sold C2's to who are running them just fine on BH6's. NV bios or later is all that is needed.

 

[dirtweasel]

i've got a 566 running on a bh6 rev 1 with nv bios at 850 rock solid.

golden orb never gets more than just warm.

dirty

 

[Jeff H]

Eug, I recently upgraded my BH6 rev1.02 from an iPII-300 (SL2YK) to an FC-PGA P!!!-650, with an Abit Slotket!!! and a Thermaltake Golden Orb heatsink/fan unit. No problems or issues. Only thing I'll suggest is you flash the BIOS to the latest version, which is now SS.

 

[Eug]

Thanks everyone. CompuWiz, YGM.

By the way, for the voltage flash trick it's like this isn't it?

Flash to NV BIOS. Run coppermine (at any speed) at 1.65 or 1.7 V or whatever. Flash again. Then you'll have voltages up to 1.9 or something? I remember reading it but can't find it.

 

[merlocka]

Yeah, boot from floppy and the syntax is like

awdflash xxxxxxx.bin /cc/py

that worked for me, just remember to reset everything in the BIOS

 

[MegaManX]

I've setup 6 rigs that were originally BH6 w/ 300A -> 450A, and now I've moved then all to 566 -> 850. No problems on any of the boards (all rev 1.0x) and they are all very stable; which is more than I can say for my via chipset boards. The BH6 is still a DAMN good board to own. You can't beat the stability.