Overclocking PIII 650e with a Lucky Star 6ABX2V mb?

[ballerz21]

How would i do this?? i updated the board to the latest bios already. Did anyone overclock a coppermine with the 6abx2v motherboard. I went in the bios and changed it to 100x 7.5 but it didn't recognize it. Any help is Great! thanks in advance!

 

[MSBHVN]

The 650E has a locked bus multiplier of 6.5. The only way to O/C is to up the bus speed towards 133. Most 650E's will do 865 on a 133FSB.

As I am not familiar with your mobo, if it is a BX chipset board you will have an 89MHz AGP @133MHZ so, have a good vid card in there and some PC133 RAM. Although, some PC100 of superior quality will do 133.

If your mobo has the Apollo Pro 133A chipset, you should be able to O/C that CPU on the 133FSB, with little or no difficulty, using the 1/2 AGP divider available.

 

[ballerz21]

MSBHVN, thanks for the quick response...so i have to use pc133 ram and make it 133 ?? that sucks aobut the 650e having a locked multiplier...no wonder it was almost the same price as the 550e...so is there a another way to change that multiplier ?? thanks again..

 

[MSBHVN]

so i have to use pc133 ram and make it 133

Yes, if you want to O/C that 650E, you have to be able to achieve bus speeds higher than 100MHz. With the locked multiplier of 6.5 x 100MHz bus speed = 650MHz. Up the bus and you get 6.5 x 133MHz bus = 865MHz. PC100 RAM, unless it's of superior quality, will not dance at 133MHz.

If your mobo doesn't have any bus speeds above 100MHz, you cannot O/C that PIII650E on it. Unless someone else has a way, I don't know of anyway to change the PIII650E's locked multiplier.

 

[ballerz21]

hello, i see...i read somewhere that says that it be stable at 123Mhz at 800. i can make mine to 133 but then again it might not be stable...but i will see i guess..thanks again!

 

[MSBHVN]

Overclocking results may vary between setups. Just because someone else has a CPU that might do 865MHz on a 133FSB, doesn't mean yours will. If you have bus speeds in-between 100 and 133, go up slowly. I sense the example you stated was because that person was using PC100 RAM and 124MHz is about the MAX for most PC100 RAM.

Post a link to that board's specs, if you have one, and I'll try to help you further.

 

[smilesdotCom]

I am trying to flash the BIOS on my Lucky-Star 6ABX2V motherboard also. How'd ya' do it??

I downloaded the BIOS from lucky-star along with the Award Flash utility (awdflash). I get the following error when I flash the BIOS:
"The File checksum does not match" 0bb7H.

The website shows the checksum as 0bb7.

Any ideas?

 

[davisy2k]

"I am trying to flash the BIOS on my Lucky-Star 6ABX2V motherboard also. How'd ya' do it??"
I am also trying to figure this out,does anyone know? On bootup I am getting the unknown micro code error.
Am I suppose to download the bin file for my bios date(12-21-99)or do I download the latest update(4-21-00)?