Question on slokets

[CraigCampos]

Trying to overclock a Celeron II 700. I have it at 875 right now. 10.5@83 but it wont go any higher. This is is on a sloket that offers the 66/100/133 speeds and intel or cyrix chip. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-6BXC. (The MB is an auto voltage board (automatically sets the voltage for the chip) My question is i have another sloket that is version 2, which offers the option of Vcore voltage. Yet when I set the Voltage to 1.8, put the chip and hsf on, snap it in and boot up...nothing happens. The screen is blank. No matter what i do it doesnt boot. Replace the sloket with the older sloket and it boots fine. Use easytune to get the 875 mhz.(overclocker from gigabyte) Another crazy thing too....If I pull the sound card i can get 1050mhz for about 5 minutes before it hangs. Yet if the sound card is in, it hangs instantly! Strange since you think 83 would cause more problems than 100 fsb!!! (especially since i had a PII 450 running at 112 fsb, before) any suggestions on either?

[Pinky]

Slotket settings will NOT override your motherboards voltage settings (at least with your setup).

What type of sound card are you using? May be the PCI bus out of spec, not the front-side bus.

I would hope a more experienced member can give you the specifics on your motherboard as the morning wears on...

[CraigCampos]

1st I'm using a sound blaster Live 2nd) with my board auto figuring the voltage, you would think the sloket would set the voltage and then the motherbaord would detect it at its setting. (Just like it does the cpu from its pins) I have the board specs but it doesnt really answer or help me in discovering the problem. Thanks for the imput

[Pinky]

CraigCampos (Jun 06, 2001 08:44 a.m.):
1st I'm using a sound blaster Live 2nd) with my board auto figuring the voltage, you would think the sloket would set the voltage and then the motherbaord would detect it at its setting. (Just like it does the cpu from its pins) I have the board specs but it doesnt really answer or help me in discovering the problem. Thanks for the imput

Unfortunately motherboard manufacturers are unable to test all configurations, and some don't even take overclocking into consideration.

Personally, I user soundblaster live and it's never caused me any grief.

I'd say to post on the video/sound portion of this site too, as the SB Live may be part of the problem; who knows, really.

[LutaWicasa]

What slotket??

[MAV]

My son has Gigabyte board..BX2000,also has the auto voltage feature,if you can call it that, anyway, he has a pc-pga 550E proc on an IWILL Slotket, i have been able to change the procs voltage of the proc on the slotket no problem and the BIOS detects it at whatever i set it to on the slotket..btw, i think it's the rev2 IWILL slotket..
regards

[Lancelot]

The SBLive! drivers may be the problem. If you just swapped out your 450Mhz P2, for the Celeron 700, that's what causes the problems! There has been an issue with the earlier SBLive! drivers and coppermine CPU's. (I read an article about it somewhere) You need to download and install the latest drivers. I had the same sh*t after replacing my (mendocino) Celeron 400 with a (coppermine) Celeron 800; the system would hang (under Win98se) during bootup, until I installed the latest SBLive! drivers. Win2k doesn't have any problems at all with it's own default microsoft certified drivers.