Cant do Voltage trick, what am I doing wrong?!?

[Celstar]

I have a Celeron 2 566 on a BM6. I currently have it at 892 Mhz at 1.7v stable. But I think I can push it to 110 Mhz with just a little more juice. BUT I can't use the reflashing bios trick to increase the voltage. I've searched the archives and followed all the directions, but it doesn't work! The default voltage is still 1.5V!

Has anyone tried to use this trick with a BM6? Help please!! I can just taste 1 Ghz......

 

[Viper GTS]

1.7 seems a little high. My 566 @ 952 is actually more stable at 1.65V than it is at 1.7V.

Also, higher end slockets have voltage jumpers. The IWILL Slocket II, for example.

Just something to think about, I honestly don't know about the BIOS flashing trick.

Viper GTS

 

[Celstar]

The BM6 doesn't need a slotket to run the Celeron 2. Here are some links you can read up on:

http://www.targetpc.com/hardware/cpu/celeron2/index.shtml
And Thorn's findings: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=28&threadid=173006

How did you come to the conclusion that your cpu at 1.65 is more stable than at 1.70v?

 

[Eug]

1.7 isn't too high at all. I wouldn't get worried until you're thinking of going past 1.8 V.

 

[yobo]

you need to set your voltage to the max setting before you reflash your bios and when you are reflashing you need to enter /cc: and the end of the command

 

[Celstar]

yobo, can you give me the syntax on the command.

What I did was:

awdflash.exe bm6_qt.bin /py/sn/cc

 

[rigor]

did you put spaces between the parameters??

 

[Celstar]

i did. i looked up the help page for awdflash, and their example doesn't use spaces. I tried both, and it still didn't work.

 

[Compnut]

The only way you can get more voltage on the bm6 is to connect pins vid0 and vid1 to vss on the back of the motherboard. Flashing the bios will not do it. It is really not difficult for anyone who knows how to use a soldering iron on a circuit board, the pins are right together. vss is ground. The pin identification is avalable on the Intel Celeron processor web site. It is data sheet 5.2.2 Signal Listing. I used a very small wire to connect the pins and soldered them. My friend just bridged them with solder. You must be careful not to bridge any other pins. This mod will give you 1.65 volts default and 1.85 volts max. My 533fcpga cel. runs stable at 896mhz and will load windows and play Q3 for a little while at 920mhz.

 

[Celstar]

Oh crap. Where can I read more about this?

 

[compuwiz1]

I wonder if that little trick would also work for the MSI 6309 and other socketed boards. Seems like it might, as it would change the way the board reads the default voltage.

 

[Compnut]

I got the info on how to do the mob mod from a earler post on this fourm and he did it on another board but I don't rember what mob it was but it was a socket 370 board and not an ABIT board.