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Help please! Will a PIII 800 coppermne SECCII run on a BH6 board?

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oneman

Junior Member
Hello,
I have a BH6 board currently running a PII 300 OC'd to 450. I picked up a PIII 800 slot one chip and was told that it would work with the BH6. I removed the old and plugged in the new, at start up the system reported the CPU speed at 98 MHZ and then locked up. When it started it beeped only once. I was unable to get into soft menu to adjust anything.
I am running PC100 ram and have flashed my bios to the most current version.

Will this chip work with this board? If not, would appreciate some suggestions for a board that will.

Thanks,
Bryan
 
It sounds like you are probably running into the same issue that I am considering but haven't completed. Look at my current thread with Pentium III 800 with old BX motherboard. I have a MSI-6119 440bx board and I want to upgrade to coppermine, however some older 440bx boards can't supply the lower 1.65 default voltage to run a coppermine. My board only goes down to 1.8 . . . it sounds like this could be your problem.
 
how can I identify if the chip is an 800eb? When I ordered it was supposed to be for 100mhz FSB. Stamped on the chip is:
800/256/100/1.65v S1
10300085-0151
SL457

The receipt reads:
INTEL PENTIUM III 800MHZ (BX80526H800256E) COPPERMINE SECCII RETAILED

As for the voltage, my board will adjust to 1.65, I just can't get into Soft Menu to make the adjustment.

Bryan
 
I guess it's a 100 mhz fsb since there is a 100 in those numbers. Probably very high voltage killing the chip or something. what voltage have you set it at?

*edit* oops ignore my post *edit*
 
I set the voltage to 1.65, saved the setting and then changed the chips but still received the 98 mhz and then the lock up.

I did use the reset jumper to dump CMOS but got the effect.

One thing that bugs me is that in the setup there is the multiplier setting which only goes up to 5.5 Since I've been using 4.5 x 100mhz to achieve 450 it seems like there should be a multiplier of 8 for the 800mhz chip. Does this sound on track?

Bryan
 
I'm not sure what "ss" means. I downloaded the latest bios and flashed it. Could you explain what "flashing ss is".

Thanks
Bryan
 
I suspect you don't have the latest BIOS flashed properly. I see that version "SP" is the latest
BIOS on the Abit website and it says:

"Supports the Celeron566(66),600(66),667(66),700(66)MHz CPUs, and PIII 750(100),800(100)MHz,850(100)MHz CPUs."

If your user defined setting is 5.5 max that's a clue, I think it should be 8.5. I'd clear the CMOS and reflash. When you boot the system the last 2 letters of the BIOS string should be "SP".

 
I am actually curious to the answer to this as well.

However if you have a newer revision 1.1 board the latest bios is

SP

If you have an older revision board like I do the latest revision is

SS

you can tell which revision you have by either the current bios installed or there is a sticker on the last isa slot which indicates revision
 
Yep,
I think that's where I'm screwed. I have a rev 1.0a board. Any recommendations on a decent board for the PIII 800 chip? Thought this was going to be a cheap easy upgrade, oh well! should have done some better research.



Bryan
 
well if you got a p3 800 that runs at the 100 mhz bus then in theory it should work according to people here but I guess if it isnt for you then it isnt going to work, there are tons of great boards out there, but I am not the person to give you any idea since I am particular to abit even though there are many who think they are utter garbage, personally I would get a be6 revision 2 or a bf6, since you have a slot one chip I guess your kind of limited since they are phasing that out though
 
I have two bh6 1.01 boards.I flashed both to the ss bios version and both will run that cpu.I think you should try to flash to the ss bios version.
 
My 600e ran flawlessly on my BH6 1.02. Flash the Bios, and you should be in good shape. Not all early BH6's will run cumines-a little luck is needed.
 
Thanks everyone,
I flashed to SS and it fired right up.

Now windoz me won't start up, it detects a new com port and tries to install the software for it, then it freezes everything for 30 secs and then it restarts itself.

Luckily I'm running boot magic with 2 C:\ partitions, the one with win98 still works.

Thanks aganin
Bryan
 
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