I'm confused: will this motherboard take a Celeron II or not?

[MGMorden]

I've got a Soyo SY-6IZA-NA board that I just picked up off of e-bay. Anyhow, the ad said that the board took Celerons up to 533mhz, and took Celeron II 566's. I went to Soyo's website and it said the same thing. I then went to look at the BIOS updates. It shows the latest update being a fix for people using Celeron II's (these were apparently being identified as P3's). So all the stuff seems to be in place for this board to support a Celeron II . . . except: this board AFAIK was out before the FC-PGA format was introduced. Also, every slocket I've had in the past had to have either PPGA or FCPGA explicitly jumpered on the card. This motherboard has no such jumper to select on or the other. So, do you guys think the thing will run a Celery II? I'm hoping to pop a Celeron 733 in this thing, which should suffice for what I want out of it, but if I have to drop down to a 533 PPGA then that'll really bite.

 

[TunaBoo]

So its slot 1? I am sure there is a technical answer but I say.. STICK IT IN and FIRE HER UP

 

[dowxp]

see how far the multipler goes...

 

[MGMorden]

No, it's one of those first gen Socket 370 boards based on the 440ZX. AFAIK these weren't supposed to run any FC-PGA chips period without cracking out the ol' soldering iron. I would pop in a FC-PGA Celeron if I still had one around. I sold my only one on hand about a month ago and all my friends have either SS7, Socket A, or Slot1 systems. I wanted to figure out if it would support a C2 before I actually laid down the cash.

Bangsailo: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the multipliers on the board don't matter do they? I mean on mult locked chip it runs at the locked multiplier regardless of what you set it to on the board. I've ran a Celeron II 566 (on a slocket) which has an 8.5 multiplier on a 440LX board with the multiplier set to 5.5 and it booted/worked fine. To answer your question though it it's supposed to have multipliers up to 7.5, but I can't check that since it's changed in the BIOS and I haven't bought the chip to go with it yet.

 

[dowxp]

i think you are correct. probably not then i guess. dont know until you try. goodluck

 

[MGMorden]

Well, I just remembered this wonderful tool called Dejanews and started searching around (even though Google has almost ruined it). I found out something sort of . . . weird. Apparently the board needs the newest bios flashed, and then it will support Celeron II's (no Pentium III's of any kind) of the cB0 or earlier stepping. cC0 or anything made hereafter will not work. Strange, but quite a few people had said this so I'm not going to question it. I guess I'm either going to go for a cB0 Celery or a Cyrix III (if they'll work).

 

[Kingofcomputer]

better to ask the manufacturer directly.

 

[MGMorden]

I did but they haven't responded (over a week since I contacted them). After searching around even more, I found out that though the board only supportes the cB0 stepping automatically, you can get it to run a cC0 stepping chip simply by performing the little mod on Tomshardware. I involves removing one pin from the cpu and soldering a wire between two pins on the mobo. Should be a piece of cake.