Does the Abit ZM6 mobo support Celeron 700Mhz?

[Gription]

Does anybody know?

 

[fxsts]

According to Abit site, ZM6 supports FC-PGA Celerons although their FAQ page says that it does not support cC0 stepping FC-PGA Celerons due to some hardware problem.

Celeron 700 comes in both CB0 and CC0 steppings. CB0 (Retai: SL4E6, OEM: SL48F) and CC0(Retail: SL4P2, OEM:SL4P8) so check with your CPU stepping.

On the other hand, I take that the reason that cC0 is not supported is because of a small voltage spec difference, and I have a feeling that cC0 works fine. But don't blame me on this if it does not.

 

[DainBrammage]

Likewise you should check to see if you mobos BIOS can be flased to support whatever chip

 

[ModMan]

cc0 stepping Celerons have the reset function on CPU pin location AH4 instead of pin X4 on the previous stepping Celerons.

I have jumpered these two pins on my BM6 (very similar to the ZM6) and I am now running a cc0 566 Celeron. This mod should also work for the ZM6.

 

[fxsts]

ModMan,

I had not known that. Thank you for the good info..

 

[ModMan]

My good friend Compnut found this useful information while scouring the Celeron spec sheets in support of a BP6/single Celeron 2 mod I was unsuccesfully attempting. I had ordered a 566 Celeron and received a cc0 stepping CPU.

The cc0 566 Celeron would only hit 706 MHz on a slot 1 BX motherboard (Tekram slotket), which was the only machine I had which can support the cc0 Celerons. I wanted to test the cc0 in my main machine (BM6, cb0 Celeron 533) to see if the 566 was a lemon when Compnut found the cb0/cc0 differences and suggested the BM6 jumper.

The cc0 566 is stable at 952 MHz in the BM6 at 1.95 volts. I think the Tekram slotket was holding me back on the slot 1 BX board and am going to try an MSI rev 2 slotket while I gather more information for the BP6 mod.

 

[Gription]

Thanks everybody!