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by mmetrick 1 view

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I have a Chaintech 6BTML Slot 1 board with its latest bios; a PIII 800eb (133mhz fsb)flipchip, and a socket 370/slot 1 converter board. It was set to 6x133mhz, and I'm getting a lockup during the page printout. All i/o cards were removed and put back one by one, no difference. I tried stopping down the clock speed to 8x100mhz, but it keeps coming up at 6x100mhz at bootup. (The jumper j9 is now set to 100mhz.) This seems to solve the lock up problem, but I can't get it to run at 800mhz at 100mhz fsb with a 8x multiplier, it insists on running at 600mhz only! Any help or insight would be appreciated. I've had this on my bench for three days! Thanks.

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by mmetrick

No, there is nothing mentioned in the documentation (albeit limited) concerning speed of the converter (an SY-370).

by david balogh

First of all it is IMPOSSIBLE, i repeat IMPOSSIBLE to change the clock multiplication (from 6 to 8 times as you described).
Second i hope you didn't spend all your money on the chip and didn't have enough for a decent converter board. I dont know exactly if a converter board can handle the 133mhz fsb but it wont do any good if you bought a cheap one, the best one to buy would be one made by the same company that made the motherboard since they are supposed to go together. But a converter board is just that a converter, its like running an emulator, its never as good as the real thing but you get the feel of it. Apart from that, the other solution is to get a socket type motherboard.

BTW. my friend bought a gigabyte GA-6VXE7+ motherboard and it said it was rated to handle 133mhz fsb but never gave him 133 fsb always had crashes so he had to run at 500mhz instead of 667.

Good luck in what ever your choice may be
David

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