Celery II 566 question

jediphx

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I have a Celery II 566 @ 875 (103fsb) running stable as hell at 1.65v, if I lower to 1.60v it does everything except 3dgames which lock the system. If it overclocks to 875 at 1.65 does that mean I got a good chip?

I will try higher but my BH6 rev 1.01 wont go higher than 1.70v in bios. Im about to switch over to a BE6
 

jediphx

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I did try 1.7v and I got it to 952mhz, it got into windows and loaded up all of the taskbar programs but then hard locked
 

TimeKeeper

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You not going to see any different between 952mhz and 875mhz
Let it run at no more than 105Mhz FSB, you really don't want to OC your other devices, do you?
 

jediphx

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Timekeeper, How can u say that I wont see a difference in performance going from 103fsb to 112fsb. I thought the higher the FSB the better the performance overall? Also what devices would be in trouble if I used the 112fsb? I know my agp card can handle fsb higher than that, Matrox G450 32 meg.
 

Nick Stone

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No need to change MB's.
You need this info to get higher voltage out of the BH6:
If you are willing to put reasonable effort into this you can probably get 952mhz. Consider a better HS/fan such as an Alpha Pep66 and good thermal compound such as Artic silver or Circuit Works Silver conductive grease. I run 952mhz at 1.85 Volts on a BH6.


THE ABIT BIOS TRICK; for Abit BX6 and BH6 era motherboards.
Before you do anything else, Enter your Bios (enter ?Del? key while the computer posts) and write down your existing Bios settings or use ?print screen? to print them out. Sometimes you have to exit and re-enter the Bios several times to ?Print screen? each page.
1: First of all, download the desired Bios ?*.bin? file and flash program ? ?awdflash.exe?.
2: Execute the downloaded ?*.exe? Bios file to expand it for use.
3: Format a diskette with the copy system files command or go to the Dos prompt and enter: format a:/s (Don?t take a chance on an old floppy that you formatted 5 years ago!)
4: Copy the ?*.bin? file you got after executing the ?*.exe? Bios file to the floppy.
Write down the name of the .bin file: example -- Bh6_kg.bin
5: Copy the ?awdflash.exe? program to the floppy.
6: Reboot the computer.
7: Now enter your Bios again.

Step 1: Set your CPU Bios settings to default. (Don?t run overclocked or out of spec.)
Step 2: Set voltage to ?user defined? and then set your voltage to the maximum you have available; usually 2.3 volts for CPUs with 2.0 volt defaults. (older celerons) or 1.7 volts for Celeron IIs for example.
Step 3: In the Bios Features Setup; set the boot sequence to: ?a,c,scsi?. if necessary,
and enable " Boot Up Floppy Seek" if necessary, to boot to your floppy.
Step 4: Save settings and restart.

Now the computer will start from the floppy.
When you are at the ?A: prompt? in Dos, you are ready to flash the Bios.

1: Type ?awdflash? and the flash program starts.
2: Type in the name of the .bin file (i.e. BH6_kg.bin) - or the one you wrote down previously; and press ?Enter?. The Bios flash screen comes up and provides you a blank to enter the ?*.bin ? file.
3: The flash program will ask you if you want to save the old Bios - answer ?yes?!
4: Save the old Bios to the floppy with any name you like - I use "old.bin" - and then press ?enter?.
5: After the flash program has saved the old Bios it will ask you if you want to program the Bios - answer ?NO?.
6: The flash program will now terminate and return to your floppy drive.
What you have done now is to save your old Bios - and you now have the opportunity to flash back to the previously Bios again. When you do the Bios trick as a single command line with all the switches, you don?t have the opportunity to save the Bios at that time.
Now you are ready to trick your Bios voltage settings!

7: The trick is NOT to start the flash program as you did previously: let?s say you have downloaded the ?kg? Bios and now you have a file called Bh6_kg.bin on your floppy - Right ?
8: Type exactly as follows for the BH6 ?kg? Bios: awdflash.exe bh6_kg.bin /py /sn /cc
9: Another example ? for the BH6 ?jj? Bios: awdflash.exe bh6_jj.bin /py /sn /cc
Now press ?enter? to begin. It takes about 30 seconds. Later press F10 to exit program when all activity on the screen stops.
10: Restart and go into your Bios settings - now you will see that the higher voltage is now the default. If the ?new default? is 1.7 volts, you will now be able to reach 1.9 volts!!! Don?t forget to reset your Bios settings before booting into Windows or you might find Windows installing ?Com ports?, etc. that you don?t want installed.
 

jediphx

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Thx Nick, now everyone is telling me though that I should not try to use the 112mhz fsb because I will be overclocking the pci bus way out of spec and may lose HD data. So is teh 103fsb Im at now the highest i can go to safely?
 

jediphx

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I forgot to add that my celery II already has some artic silver on it as well as a Golden Orb
 

Nick Stone

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It's hard for me to believe that those 2 new Seagates won't do 75 mhz without loosing data. Just to be safe, try making a backup copy of your registry (System dat and user.dat, etc.) Put the backups in a nice safe directory on your hard drive where you can easily find them in Dos and copy them back over to the "Windows directory" if you later find that you can't load Windows.
Microsoft makes a Win95 program called "ERD" that does the same thing. I'm surprised that it doesn't get mentioned occasionally on these forums.