CPU voltage on BH6

[airflow]

I have an ABIT BH6 motherboard, with a Celeron 600 CPU. I am using an Aopen CPU converter card.

In the bios, the motherboard, only allows for a voltage up to 1.7V. The converter card has jumpers on it for setting the CPU core voltage, and they allow for at least 2.00V.

However, adjusting the jumpers on this, seems to have no effect at all! I am using "Motherboard monitor" to check the cpu core voltage while running, and it is still only what is set in the bios.

I need to set the voltage higher than 1.7V, currently heat is not a problem and it runs fine at 900mhz, but occasional lock up at 1008mhz with 1.7V. Just need more voltage! and the Converter card is supposed to be able to set it!

help appreciated.

thanks.

[LutaWicasa]

Hey Airflow, welcome to the best board there be :)
I saw the same ? from you at The Motherboard. I guess after the wrong answer there you didn't look again, so here goes. To give yourself more voltage options you can use the old re-flash trick. In bios set the voltage to max. Boot with the floppy you've got set up for flashing. At the A: prompt type: awdflash BHxxx.bin /sn/cc After flash is complete exit with F10 then re-boot using re-set. Go into bios and set eveything up. You will now have options up to 1.90v
I would also suggest a good cooler and I prefer the MSI-6905 Master ver 2 slotket. Hope this helps and have fun :)

[ken257]

I had an Abit VT6X4 and had the same problem. Did the bios reflash and it did not help. The problem turned out to be the slocket adapter I guess the cpu's default voltage was still prevailing. The fix was an MSI slocket set to 1.9v this gave me options well over 2v, I have since also used Asus slockets with success to. The key seems to be if the slocket has a chip on it looks like a memery chip only a little smaller then the voltage setting will work. Not many cards have this chip and they are inferior.

[LutaWicasa]

The re-flashtrick only works on the old BX boards, I mean like pre-soft menu III. I have re-flashed my old BH6 as well as the BX6r2 that I am currently using. This will do as stated above.

[airflow]

Hey, LutaWicasa,
thanks for the help, man,
I thought I'd post at a few forums to see what information i'd get. My first few tries weren't very successfull, but I think I'll be satisfied now, as long as the reflash trick works.

[Sempei]

Oh it will work airflow. I've used this trick twice on my own BH6 each time raising the voltage a little more. You will be happy with the results.