Powerleap 1.2g celery locks computer after about 10min in WinXP on a abit BH6?

[Shagger]

My dad's BH6 is rev 1.0 and there is no 1/4 divider.

How can you tell that it's a rev 1.0 versus a rev 1.1 board? Well I am glad you asked that. There is a sticker on the last ISA slot. What's that? You say you can't see the sticker? Oh, that's too bad, well I guess you could remove all your cards and cable and take the mobo out of the case...

Those morons at Abit put the all important Revision sticker and placed it on the BOTTOM side of the last ISA slot. Why not silkscreen it into the board itself? I had to remove all the PCI cards and then I find it's only the 1.0 revision! Argh!

 

[oldfart]

There is an easier way than looking at the sticker. The 1.1 and up boards have the colored ATX connectors (mouse, KB, printer, etc port) and the pre 1.1's are white.

 

[apoppin]

<< AGPCLK/CPUCLK: 2/3 (if changing this to 1/1 fixes my problem I'm gonna freak out) >>


I guess it didn't matter.

My BIOS is older than yours and my "turbo" mode is really just a mild o/c.

Also, are all your PL adapter jumpers set correctly? (Mine was missing some)

 

[WeekendWarrior]

I agree the sticker is in a stupid place but what I did was lay the case down and used 2 small flat mirrors and a magnigying glass to read the numbers...worked like a charm.
update on mine...I cant find many slotkets around here but what I did find was 2 generics and an asus (cost me $30.00 cdn)
same crap....sound is freaking out and video corrupted.
does anyone think a reformat is necessary when changing cpus?
can it help at all?
or a reflash of the bios?
any ideas?
WW

 

[apoppin]

<< AGPCLK/CPUCLK: 2/3 >>



Well, you are mentrioning mostly graphics problems. Try changing the AGP/CPU ratio to 1:1. I believe the slower FSB of the early Celeron required 2/3 although the 100FSB PIIIs were set 1 to 1 (as are all Celerons over 850Mhz including Tualatins).

 

[oldfart]

AGPCLK/CPUCLK:

Pretty easy.
100 FSB, use 2/3 = 66 MHz AGP
66 FSB, use 1/1 = 66 MHz AGP
133 FSB, use 2/3 = 89 AGP (no 1/2 AGP on a BX)

 

[Shagger]

There is an easier way than looking at the sticker. The 1.1 and up boards have the colored ATX connectors (mouse, KB, printer, etc port) and the pre 1.1's are white.

Yeah, I figured it out after the fact - unfortunately when the computer you are working on is the one that's online, it's tuff to access the wealth of knowledge that is the Internet!

BH6 FAQ page

 

[LarryJoe]

An alternative solution for you folks trying to prolong a BX board - get your hands on an OEM PIII1000 (spec SL5QV/100fsb). I followed apoppin's trials with the PL adapter in hopes of upgrading my PIII700@933 to a Tulatin 1.2@1.4-1.6. When I learned that you could not control the voltage or FSB using the PL adater, it just wasn't enough of an upgrade for me. The BX rocks if you can run a 133 fsb and have a mobo with the proper divers. I did.

I bought a PIII 1000e and got it to run at 1260 with no effort at all. Most folks can do 1333 pretty easy here. I benched it with Sandra at 1260 and the scores came in a bit higher than a Tulatin 1.2. It cost me $135.00 from Googlegear and it left me with control of my BIOS and tweakability. The PL adater offers no versatilty, IMO.

All this said, my hard drive crashed and I did not have an image because I just upgraded to XP (love it) and I had to do the very thing I was avoiding, formatting and reinstalling. So I pulled the Northwood trigger and sold everything off.

BUT - IMO this chip is a better upgrade option than the PL gimmick, especially if you like to tweak.

 

[BlueLou]

You folks definitely make a good argument. I think I'm just going to call Powerleap tomorrow and return their gizmo. Time to start looking for an Abit Slotket 3 and an oem P3 1000e (still have the 100 FSB as you know).

Just trying to avoid building an entirely new system for another six months because I would rather upgrade the stereo in my car first. I spend way too much time in it commuting and my CD player broke almost a year ago.

Would be nice to have a new system and a new stereo but the moolah gods are frowning. Pricewatch, here I come....

 

[MrThompson]

FWIW, I had nothing but problems with the Power Leap adapters. I also found their techincal support lacking. They are a good bunch of folks but unfortunately they are in a growth crunch and have not hired enough staff to handle everything. Needless to say, I returned my iPL/3s.

 

[BlueLou]

Unfortunately I was never able to resolve this issue. I had a few leads to try out but I just didn't feel like lapping my heatsink, applying a different thermal grease, or installing a larger fan.

I do workstation troubleshooting and support for almost 12 hours a day at work so the last thing I want to do when I get home is more troubleshooting.

I even disabled the L2 cache through the Abit bios just to see what would happen. No change.

If you get one of these, make sure you jumper the iP3/T to 100Mhz as the default jumper of "Auto" won't even let the motherboard post. Guess that should have been my first sign....

I think this just boils down to an overly ambitious upgrade for an older motherboard. I have decided to return the PL-iP3/T and try for a Slotket III adapter with a Pentium III 800 running on a 100Mhz FSB. It will be a bit more expensive but still cheaper than building an entirely new system.

Perhaps Powerleap will be able to build a more stable product in the future but I think they have their work cut out for them. Also, their tech support appears to be completely inattentive or overwhelmed as I have not received a reply to my support request that was sent 10 days ago.

Good luck with your future upgrades.

 

[akou]

I gonna have to take issues with your mixing of RAM. I originally had 128 pc 100 in my bh6. I bought 2 sticks of pc133 256 and got the board to recognize all 640MB after some slot changes. Then the nightmares begin, first the applications started stalling. The response time of my mouse was wacked out. Blue screen poped up all over the next day. I finally decided to take out the 100, and all the problems went away. Now my BH6 is now stable with celeron 1.1 and 512MB pc133.

Feel the Joy!

 

[BlueLou]

akou, I tried two different types of RAM (256MB pc-100 and pc-133) from two different sources (Crucial and Fry's Electronics) in all three slots (by themselves and with other RAM) and my system would only see 128MB of the 256MB module. It's not really a big deal since I had only planned to install 384MB of RAM anyway. I'll just have to put in three 128MB modules.

Also, I'm going to have to retract my statement about not wanting to spend all my time greasing CPU's and fitting new heatsinks and fans because I'm just about to spend the rest of the day doing just that. I actually found a local computer store that had a P3-1100e (that's 100Mhz FSB with 256Kb cache) for sale at $149. Just dropped it into a generic socket 370 to slot 1 adapter ($9) and am about to get wacky with some Arctic Chill II ($9) and a P3-Monster heatsink/fan from Pactech ($32) (courtesy of Fry's once again). This is a little more expensive than what the PL-iP3/T costs after shipping ($177) but I'm willing to pay it if this actually works.

Here's some specs on the processor an case any of you are thinking about trying it. Stamped on the chip is the following info:

Intel '01, Costa Rica
1100/256/100/1.75v

3123A592-0640
Pentium III SL5QW

Provided that this actually works, I'll be posting an update. Still have to ship off that PL-iP3/T for a refund too.