Thanks in advance for any help you can render....
I'm trying to build mail clients for some friends out of the various CPUs, hard drives, etc. I have laying around.
Last weekend, I picked up 2 Abit AH6 MBs and two sticks of PC100 SDRAM to pair with two spare Celeron 400 Slot A CPUs I had from way back.
So far, so good.
The systems POSTs fine.
Looked in the BIOS & at Abit America, seems like the original revision only went to 333MHz...
No big deal, it's still a 66MHz bus, I'll just bump the multiplier in the "User defined" section.
Works like a charm, so I start to install W2K Pro. Everything is golden, starts formatting the drive, I step outside.
I come back to a BSOD.
I try a couple of times, I get sporadic reboots, various BSOD halts, looks like a hardware issue.
OK, I hunt around, finally find a more recent BIOS. (Abit America seems to lag the Taiwanese site)
I flash from
7/20/98-i440LX-ALi513-2A69JA1CC-FG
to
6/27/99-i440LX-ALi513-2A69JA1CC-KQ
This adds BIOS support for processors through 500+ MHz.
Try again, same sporadic errors.
Set bus to 60MHz, multiplier to 3x, all memory timings to their slowest/longest. No joy.
Try running every diagnostic program I could find. No errors.
Try swapping everything I could
- Known good PCI video instead of the new AGP card
- PC100 Viking ECC 128M SDRAM
- Even various HDs
No joy.
My conclusion:
While it is possible that both MBs and/or both CPUs are bad, the chances seem slim. The vendor wasn't exactly Fortune-500, and the CPUs had sat around for a while, but both setups failing in the same manner...
Does anyone have any idea why I can't run a higher-rated CPU at the standard bus speed regardless of MB support for the CPU? These should be the only variables here, right?
On this page:
http://www.abit.com.tw/eng/faq/mainboards.htm
Abit shows MB support for slot 1 PII/Celerons through 333 MHz, but Slocketed 370s through 400? Huh?
I'm trying to build mail clients for some friends out of the various CPUs, hard drives, etc. I have laying around.
Last weekend, I picked up 2 Abit AH6 MBs and two sticks of PC100 SDRAM to pair with two spare Celeron 400 Slot A CPUs I had from way back.
So far, so good.
The systems POSTs fine.
Looked in the BIOS & at Abit America, seems like the original revision only went to 333MHz...
No big deal, it's still a 66MHz bus, I'll just bump the multiplier in the "User defined" section.
Works like a charm, so I start to install W2K Pro. Everything is golden, starts formatting the drive, I step outside.
I come back to a BSOD.
I try a couple of times, I get sporadic reboots, various BSOD halts, looks like a hardware issue.
OK, I hunt around, finally find a more recent BIOS. (Abit America seems to lag the Taiwanese site)
I flash from
7/20/98-i440LX-ALi513-2A69JA1CC-FG
to
6/27/99-i440LX-ALi513-2A69JA1CC-KQ
This adds BIOS support for processors through 500+ MHz.
Try again, same sporadic errors.
Set bus to 60MHz, multiplier to 3x, all memory timings to their slowest/longest. No joy.
Try running every diagnostic program I could find. No errors.
Try swapping everything I could
- Known good PCI video instead of the new AGP card
- PC100 Viking ECC 128M SDRAM
- Even various HDs
No joy.
My conclusion:
While it is possible that both MBs and/or both CPUs are bad, the chances seem slim. The vendor wasn't exactly Fortune-500, and the CPUs had sat around for a while, but both setups failing in the same manner...
Does anyone have any idea why I can't run a higher-rated CPU at the standard bus speed regardless of MB support for the CPU? These should be the only variables here, right?
On this page:
http://www.abit.com.tw/eng/faq/mainboards.htm
Abit shows MB support for slot 1 PII/Celerons through 333 MHz, but Slocketed 370s through 400? Huh?
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