Just installed a P3 850 (retail) and voltage defaults to 1.70 is this right ?

[cotton]

HI
I just installed a Pentium 3 850 Retail box. I have an Asus P3BF with bios 1006 (which is the latest bios) that supports up to an 850. Two problems:

1. The voltage in the BIOS is 1.70 running at all default settings, such as 8.5 at 100. Is this normal ? I thought the P3's run at 1.65

2. When it boots up it reports that the BIOS CPUID is incorrect. Not sure what that means.

 

[Vegito]

i believe all newer p3 revision/stepping are 1.70, cc0 i think are all 1.7

 

[Yourself]

Yep...the newer versions of the P3's run at 1.7 vs. 1.65 for first steppings(CBO). It better yours is a CCO stepping, making it a 1.7v chip. I hope this helps.

Self

 

[TravisBickle]

PIIIsspec

 

[cotton]

Hi
I just spoke to Intel. I told them that I have an Asus P3BF that is a slot 1 and I am using a Asus Slotket for the 850 FCPGA.
They told me that first of all, they do not recommend using a sloket and secondly, that the 850 has a dual architecture as opposed to the older 850's or 800's or slower P3's
They said that the Processor will fail since the motherboard and sloket do not meet their requirements. I told them that on Asus site, the latest BIOS says it supports up to an 850.
So, do I take a chance and leave it alone and hope for the best ? The other worry is why it says BIOS INCORRECT - CPUID0000

 

[TravisBickle]

i suppose you are talking about split plane voltage. officially it's not supposed to work on BX boards. but still it does in a lot of them. does your chip actually boot to windows? try searching overclocking newsgroups or something.

 

[bacillus]

looks like you'll have to try bios 1008 to fix that error!

 

[cotton]

Yes, it does boot into windows and has been running now for 24 hours. I have installed programs and so far, no problems except for that message during the bios boot that says "bios incorrect - cpuid000" whatever that means, it then proceeds to continue to boot and load Windows

 

[BeeVo]

I had that error in my BIOS and I upgraded the BIOS and it was fixed.