Problem with Iwill Slocket II and Abit BE6 II

[tmg09]

I bought a Celeron 566 supposed to be guaranteed to run at 850 but I never could get it to run stable on BE6 II and Iwill Slocket II no matter the voltage. I then bought a PIII 800 fcpga and installed it into the Iwill slocket and Abit BE6-II. At default voltage I still can't get this to run stable. All the jumpers are set to auto and set to FC-ppg on the slocket. I was wondering if some of these pentium III chips require higher than default voltage or is there a problem with the slocket or compatability problem with the Iwill slocket and the Abit BE6 II.

 

[Ben_Tech]

A couple things to check: make sure your heatsink is sitting flat on the cpu core. The way to do this is to hold it up to the light and make sure you can't see any light between the cpu core and heatsink on any edge. Also make sure the slocket is set to "intel". Also get the latest Abit bios. Good luck!

 

[Ulysses]

Ditch that Slocket. Get one that's an Abit. See:
http:// [url]http://support.intel.com/support/processors/pentiumiii/ssalist.htm [/url]

 

[Coki]

ABIT SUCK. You might need another BIOS update.

If you can get another motherboard. I learned this the hardway.

 

[tmg09]

I am running the latest Abit bios for the BE6-II. Also the C566 runs fine at default bus speed and default voltage, so I figured it was the CPU not being able to hit 850. But my new PIII 800 came today and I swithed the processor and reinstalled the golden orb heat sink, which is sitting level on the cpu. I set the bios to default setting for PIII 800 and have nothing but instability so far. I bought a cheap generic slocket on the way to work this evening so I will give that a try tomorrow morning.

 

[Lord Gwynz]

Could it be your RAM? Since the Celery runs fine at default (66mhz FSB?) but chokes at 100mhz FSB as well as the PIII, try another stick of PC100/PC133 memory. Have you tried the 90-95 FSB settings?

 

[tmg09]

I forgot to mention it before but I am replacing a celeron 366 O/C to 567 on this same board and with the same memory. The memory was good to 103 Front side bus with that processor so it should run at 100 with either one of these new processors.

 

[tmg09]

Found the problem. Only took me 8 to 10 re-installs. I was running 320 megs of PC-100 ram. This setup ran perfectly the last 8 months with a Celeron 366 O/C to 567. Everytime I increased the bus to 100 with either the Celeron 566 or at the default for the PIII 800 I would start getting random errors and lockups. Took the 64 meg stick of ram out and everything is running smooth. I can combine either the two 128's or a 128 and the 64 meg chips, but I can't run all three like I was before at 100 FSB. O well 256meg isn't bad. Anybody have any idea why this won't work like it worked before. Is it the increase in the processor speed?

 

[mpitts]

Glad to hear it.

I love Abit's motherboards. I have run the BE6, BE6-II and am currently running the KA7. All have been great.

 

[birddog]

I had simular problems with my 500e on my tyan trinity 400. When using the Iwill slotkit II I was getting lots of the blue screens of death, when I mounted the flipchip into the S370 socket (this tyan board supports both CPU types) it was rock stable. The reason I wanted to use the slotkit is that I wanted to be able to adjust the voltage for overclocking (the tyan board has on voltage tweaks in the bios). I even tried up to 1.75 volts & still could not get it stable (not overclocked).